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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Francis Waititu",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Munyua Waititu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this chance to support this Motion. As my colleague, Hon. Wamunyinyi has said, we had a problem in Kiambu County where the Governor said that county offices should go to Thika. We tried to intervene as lawmakers from Kiambu County, but we could not relocate the headquarters to Kiambu. Unless we amend this law, the governors will abuse their powers. I thank the Committee for taking the initiative to discuss this. Some governors change their offices and there is no central place where people can go and see them. It is a very important office. If we have a central place where governor’s offices are located, this will help the county governments, especially the Members of County Assembly (MCAs) and the executives to know where they can get their governor. There was a case where some governors stayed in hotels. We saw and heard it. That is because they did not have a central place of operation. Our Constitution allows for public participation where citizens of a county would sit down and agree where their headquarters would be. Looking at what this Committee has done, it is true we are getting somewhere. The office of the governor is the second most powerful office, after the office of the President. A county office is very important to the locals. In Kiambu County, Lari is at the far end of the County, next to Naivasha. The other county offices are in Thika which is on the opposite end of the county. People have difficulties accessing the county offices but, as lawmakers, there is nothing that we could do. Therefore, I fully support that we should have those offices located in one central point. As my colleagues have said, in 1992, we had those offices. That is where commissioners used to sit. Those offices had working systems. I thank this Committee for doing a tireless job to bring this into order."
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