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    "content": "governors must be open to consultation. My dear brothers who have been elected governors or those who have been bestowed an extra-ordinary, critical responsibility on their shoulders, if I was a Governor, I would invite this idea because it helps me to build a broad platform for consultation; that then legitimizes my leadership and my programmes. Long before these programmes are enacted within the spheres of the county assemblies and the Senate, there would be broad input from a larger array of leaders. Just look at what happened to me; I told Sen. Sang a couple of weeks ago that I would not support his Bill; a couple of weeks later, I am supporting the Bill purely because there are frameworks for consultation in this Senate; and people are then able to pick out the rich ideas that have been presented. So, governors must look at this as an extra-ordinary platform for them to enjoy the diversity of input from their Senators and MPs so that they tame down the adversarial political contestations that we see. After all, we cannot leave it to the whim of every Governor to do as they please in terms of who they invite to the table of development. We cannot, again, have a situation where development in this country is sectionalized or patronized to the extent that we witnessed when the young Sen. Sang was a young man – that was during the Moi Era – you must have heard a lot of stories about it. There was actually patronized development and, therefore, we do not want a situation where the Governor of any county relegates development to mere patronage of MPs, who they view as friends; to Senators who they view as political compatriots; or to any other person or the MCAs, who are partly part of this development board. Therefore, we want there to be broad consultations; and I think that was the whole idea about devolution. Devolution actually meant to devolve power and the process of decision making and to ensure that there are consultations. My brother, Prof. Kithure Kindiki, who over the years has internalized law, was citing the various constitutional articles that were justifying this Bill; and if Kindiki and other constitutional lawyers of note like Amos Wako, Kiraitu Murungi and any other person who has spoken---"
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