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    "content": "Sorry, I thought somebody was raising a point of order. Being new in the House, I know sometimes I may move along lines that are not correct but now I know I am fully in order. I want to talk about Clause 5(a) which talks of deleting the sub-section and substituting, therefore, the following new sub-section which states that the deputy governor shall be the principal assistant of the governor and deputise the governor in execution of the governor’s functions. I want to support that, having this in mind. We have a case in point where--- I cannot remember which county it was in particular but there was a case where a governor was absent from office due to illness for such a long time. I think it was Nyeri County, if I am not wrong. Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) began to raise very serious questions but the deputy governor could not respond to some of the issues. He said that they have not been given instruments of power and, therefore, he could not execute some of the decisions. When you have such a law, you can execute functions properly. You do not have to wait for the kind of scenario that Sen. Murkomen envisioned. He said that some deputy governors will have to wait for the governor to die for them to execute some of these functions when it is clear that the deputy governor is the principal assistant of the governor. This is written and confirmed in law; that there are decisions that deputy governors will take and be confident that they are doing the right thing in law. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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