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    "content": "allegiance to the county than to give an allegiance to one person. I know after that it has to pass through the county assembly, which is okay. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I look at this and say it is important that we have this with regard to the deputy, we said he shall have at least five years experience as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. Why are we varying for this one and I thought the deputy and the other one must have almost the same experience except may be years? Here, you are talking about an advocate of the High Court which I did not see in the other, you only talked of judicial officers, legal practitioners and other legal field. So, what is the distinction between these two? Why can you not make it uniform so that it meets the requirements? You also did not say it meets the requirements of Chapter 6 of the Constitution. This one you have mentioned for the deputy and you did not mention for the County Attorney in order to make sure we have people of integrity there. Like I told you, we have an individual purporting to be the County Attorney in West Pokot county; but this is somebody who had been sacked by the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC), the case is in court. So, when you tell the governor that such a person has been found unfit, he says he is the boss. When you have those things, we need to have a law that can easily put sense into some of these people or if somebody breaks the law, that same appointing authority, who is the governor, should be the one being arrested, because he is breaking the law bybringing people who are not competent. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I conclude, we need to move and enact some of these laws so that we can align and safeguard devolution to what we wanted. This is vital so that we can safeguard and become the real custodians of the interests of the people by enacting these laws. We would ask Sen. Wako and colleagues who have a wealth of experience in law and legal practice that they may need to suggest some of the laws for us to move and put these people in place. We want to see some governors and some people who have messed up go to court before 2017 rather than wait until after. Waiting for what? It does not assist us at all as a nation. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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