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    "content": "Committee and I liked that he owned up and said that he is sorry that he did not know the issues. It is very rare to get people to acknowledge that they are sorry. I was very impressed with the Governor. The officers know the things which the Governor does not know because they used to work in the centralized system. We were wondering why workers working in that country did not advise the Governor. We need to have things that are making sense so that we have names that are not associated with the governors. We should look at the appointment of very key officers that are the anchors of devolution in our Constitution. This is the sub-county administrator who is parallel to the former District Commissioner, ward administrator who is parallel to District Officer of the national Government and the village administrator who is parallel to the chief. They are employed on permanent and pensionable basis and they are recruited by the governor and there is no input from the Senator, Members of the National Assembly and Members of County Assemblies (MCAs). So we end up with people pledging 24 hours allegiance to one person. We need to come out of that by providing for a selection committee in this Bill which is free from direction by one person. This will assist us. I remember two years ago, Sen. Sang brought a Bill here which eventually became law, although it was overturned the other day by the court. It established the County Development Boards, which we never called the executive county development boards. It was just a board that would reunite all leaders. Unfortunately, there is no provision where leaders are supposed to meet and talk about the development of their counties, because the executive on the ground thinks there is interference when we are there. Madam Temporary Speaker, if this Bill is passed into law, it will bring a lot of history and good understanding to our counties. This is because we will remember how counties came into being. I come from West Pokot County which has a rich history of people who led them from many years. We have the late Francis Loile Lotodo, who was our leader during the tough times. However, today when I walk around Kapenguria Town, the headquarters of our county, there is nothing that resembles his name. The children in nursery schools do not know where he came from or where he took the community to. So, when we talk about our heroes of that time, it is important that this committee is identified and history is rewritten about each of the heroes and what each of them ever did to bless the county and the country at large. Madam Temporary Speaker, in 1950, before Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and the other five were brought to Kapenguria, there was a man called Kech who led a complete rebellion against the white people in Kolowa in Pokot East. Nobody knows what really happened but 500 people were killed in the rebellion. These are the type of people that we should bring up and the County of Baringo would have these names because that happened in their county. We also had strong men in West Pokot County such as Meshack Tinkou and Cannon Peter Rice, the white man who brought Christianity to the area and the ones who built AIC and Catholic Church in the late 1800. These are the people that we need to remember. We need to remember who our first Members of Parliament in 1963 were. Our first Senator was called Kasachon, and I am now the second Senator, exactly 52 years The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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