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    "content": "method where the CEC in terms of the work it will do, then, their decision is put in writing. Where there is “shall” and “may” in terms of designation of other responsibilities – Sen. Murkomen, I suggest this:- Why can we not say that the deputy governor shall have responsibility as any other CEC member to the extent, therefore, the deputy governor can conduct the functions of the person in charge of water and finance so that we do not have to assign specific responsibilities because these responsibilities that are delegated under Section 30 of the County Governments Act, you do not need to redefine them. We need to put the deputy governor at a higher level than the CEC members. The governors are demeaning their deputies by giving more responsibilities to CEC members. Secondly, the proposal by Sen. Murkomen that the deputy governor is the principal assistant to the governor would cure what is happening in Machakos, that, the governor then appoints a fellow who is not even a CEC member to read speeches on his behalf and represent him at county functions. Therefore, I suggest that in terms of qualifying, maybe it is better instead of saying that he or she shall be assigned responsibilities by the governor; we then put a specific clause where the deputy governor can perform the functions of a CEC member. That means that the deputy governor assumes a higher responsibility so that then – because the structure of the county executive presupposes that you have a two tier. The first tier is the governor and his deputy and the persons appointed by the governor and approved by the assembly. That way, we would then ensure that the governors will not demean their deputy governors or in the case of counties, they would assign them the responsibilities that nobody wants to do. They would say, go and inspect toilets and so on. We do not want to remove that balance. We want to ensure that our work is not to legislate too much on this issue based on the conduct of the current governors. As Sen. Wako has suggested, maybe in the next dispensation, we will have better governors. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, a governor will not deliberately remove the balance that is already in the Constitution and the County Governments Act. To safeguard against this, the only option is to ensure that the ‘may’ in the Act is changed to ‘shall’ but we deliberately--- Because there is a limit as to the number of the executive members any county government can have, we can have these responsibilities performed by the deputy governor. Otherwise, I agree to the amendment to ensure that the deputy speaker is included in Clause 2 and the removal of the deputy speaker to be equal to that of the speaker. Although Sen. Murkomen takes credit for drafting the County Governments Act, they left out a lot of things. However, it is just tiding it up. We have had problems with the speakers of the county assemblies. They have assumed that they are equal to deputy governors. They feel that they share power with the county government that is elected. I prefer an amendment on the election of the speaker so that it is clear that the speaker does not share power with the county government. This is to avoid a situation like in Makueni County where the speaker has become a problem because having been elected by the 47 Members of the County Assembly, he thinks he has powers equivalent to the governor who was elected by many people. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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