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    "content": "is need for counties to seek legal advice as they come up with laws. I am sure that the law that was passed by the Lamu County Assembly contravenes the County Governments Act. Section 5(2) is set to be amended by this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. It talks about county governments coming up with establishment for staffing. My advice is that they consider the ballooning wage bill both at the national and county level. We should not use the county government as a forum to reward people through employment at the expense of development. You can find almost 100 per cent of a county’s budget going to recurrent expenditure. We should also try to have an inclusive county civil service. We also need to consider the national image. There is no need of localizing staff such that 100 per cent of them come from that county. We will be losing the sole purpose of a unitary system as a Government. It is actually good to come up with legislation whereby a certain percentage of staff should only come from that county, and the rest should come from other counties. There is also a proposed amendment to Section 26(2). It proposes that the number of wards in a county should be limited to a minimum of ten. Currently, the Act gives a minimum of 15. The number of electoral wards in a constituency is five on average. There are some counties with only two constituencies. An example here is Lamu and Isiolo---"
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