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    "content": "orderliness and discipline for public officials to facilitate the good governance of the Republic of Kenya; and, to guide the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) in determining the remuneration, salaries and allowances of state officers in accordance with Article 230 of the Constitution. In other words, when the SRC grades officers, they are likely to use this ranking as one of the factors to consider. That is why we need this Bill. The second issue is the Proposed Order which is in Clause 4. In the Proposed Order, the President will be the seniormost followed by the Deputy President, the Speakers of Parliament, the Chief Justice, former presidents and former prime ministers. There is only one former Prime Minister because the other holder of that office is no longer alive; that is the late President Jomo Kenyatta. I thought we should have said the former prime minister because there is only one former prime minister. But who knows, in future, we might revert to some of these titles because we are doing this for posterity. The leader of the majority party comes immediately after the former presidents and former prime ministers. After the leader of majority party is the leader of minority party and then former vice presidents and former deputy presidents. MPs and county governors are in the same ranking. Justices of the Supreme Court, judges of the Court of Appeal, judges of the High Court, Cabinet Secretaries (CSs), Attorney-General and Auditor-General, Principal Secretaries (PSs), Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), Inspector-General of the National Police Service (NPS) or Director-General of the National Intelligent Service (NIS), chairpersons of constitutional commissions, commissioners, commissioner of prisons, ambassadors and high commissioners. That is the Precedence list. Thirdly, who is entitled to fly the national flag on their vehicles or even use sirens in their motorcades in traffic? It is the President, the Deputy President, Speakers of Parliament, the Chief Justice, the chief of KDF the Inspector-General of NPS, former presidents and former prime ministers. Those are the ones entitled as proposed in this Bill. I think it is a good Bill as a guide. As leaders, we should not demand to be respected. Respect is earned and it is not in mandate. Finally, this Bill is a combination of initially what Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has proposed in the first Bill that we passed. The National Assembly also had a version which had emanated from the MP for Eldas, Hon. Keynan. I hope this is a compromise for the two Houses of Parliament. I do not want to speak more than that. I beg to move and request my younger brother, Sen. M. Kajwang, the Senator for Homa Bay County, to second this Motion."
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