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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think this is real and I do not think that we should take it lightly. It may be a political culture being developed in counties; that governors must turn the other way when some excesses are being committed in the assemblies on which these allegations are based. Again, we must say that this is not happening everywhere, but it is a likely tendency that may engulf all counties and present us with a very terrible state of affairs. Thirdly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Bill before us which is amending the County Governments Act opens doors to further discussion. To me, this further discussion is something that I have been very conscious about. To what extent do we want to see the TA fold its operations in the new future? I think the Constitution envisages a five-year transition period. But the more we discuss county affairs in the various committees, the more I realize that this transition may take very long. For example, the role of county governments in looking after the economies of the counties and given what they have so far done up to now in settling down; given the primacy where county governments have paid more to politics and consolidation of power, to what extent do we really envisage that they will be in a position to be effective in managing their economies within the next five years? When the TA have succeeded in transferring certain critical institutions to these counties within the time--- This morning, I was lucky enough to have been in Sen. Billow’s Committee on Finance, Commerce and Economic Affairs, in which I am a Member; and Sen. Murkomen’s Committee on Devolution, in which I am also a Member. The discussions in these two Committees were interesting. In Sen. Billow’s Committee on Finance, Commerce and Economic Affairs, we were discussing with the Cabinet Secretary in charge of tourism, commerce and trade. In the Committee on Devolution, we were meeting the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Gender Commission. The CEO of the Gender Commission put before us a whole raft of problems facing the implementation of the Constitution with regard to inclusiveness. I think in the Constitution, the value of inclusiveness is given prominence among all those other values that are listed in that particular Article. It hits at the heart of the problem and it is clear on the gender issue. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the county governments, including the governors, speakers, the majority leaders, and so on, will not really appreciate the importance of what they are doing if they do not understand the principle of inclusiveness. That includes, amongst other things, not just gender, but minorities in those specific counties. The fact that there is also a law that says that when you are recruiting members of the executive, 30 per cent should come out of the county; were we to do an audit today, how many counties have"
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