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    "content": "My colleague, Sen. Murkomen, talked about counties where the governor and his deputy come from the same ethnic group. That is where more trouble is found than in the opposite situation where they come from different communities. I do not know whether that is true. You need to do more research and check whether it is true that by just having a governor and his deputy from different ethnic groups like in the case of Trans Nzoia, where the Governor is a Luhya and his deputy is a Kalenjin, there is cohesion. Is it because they are working together? I also know in Uasin Gishu County, the governor and his deputy come from the same community and they have no problem. I think that should not be the case although I support that we should encourage as much as we can, to have a deputy from a different background from the governor’s so long as they come from the same county. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the position of the deputy speaker has also been mentioned in this Bill. It is good to also anchor it in law. It is not there in the previous law but somehow, county assemblies ended up electing their deputy speakers. The deputy speaker is elected by the Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs). How do you remove the deputy speaker who is elected? We do not need to follow the other one because when you remove the deputy speaker, does he exit completely as a Member? So, the cloud needs to be cleared properly so that we see how that one can be removed. However, I support that these provisions need to be put in the law so that we have clear positions and we have people who can assist. We also need qualifications of people who will vie as deputy speaker, so that we do not just carry anybody. In my county, we have a deputy speaker who was a councilor before. Just because we had more former councilors elected as MCAs, when it came to voting, they voted one of their own when we still had degree holders who needed to be considered. It may be necessary that we see how to tailor that. Although I also discovered that it is not necessary that for you to be a speaker, you must be a lawyer. However, you have to be a politician. That is what I have just discovered in practice. You must be a politician for you to manage the others. These are some of the things that we need to look at as we continue with this. For the first time, we need to move this one so that when we go to the elections, we have a law that people can read in black and white. The governor and his deputy can then see that. Maybe we need to amend the ones that we have at the moment. I second this Bill."
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