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    "content": "Secretaries. I am convinced that we may have to rearrange this precedence because I do not believe that in our hierarchy set up, the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) is junior to a Principal Secretary. He is definitely senior. We should rearrange so that Nos. “O” becomes “N” and “N” becomes “O”. The Inspector-General of Police Service and the Director General of National Intelligence Services should be put correctly. The Chairpersons of constitutional commissions are rightly put followed by Commissioner of Prisons. However, I think that the Commissioner of Prisons is the same in rank with the Inspector-General of Police Service. We should have ranked him as No.”P” as well. Ambassadors and High Commissioners are rightly placed. However, I think we have left out a critical segment of equally important elected leaders, the Speakers of the county assemblies considering a county assembly like Nairobi has 60 per cent of our GDP under its watch. The Speaker of that Assembly and all assemblies are important. When we were in Mombasa, I forgot to mention that you find anybody picked from anywhere and made Speaker of the National Assembly or Senate is automatically given a national honour, Elder of the Golden Heart (EGH) as well as anyone picked from anywhere to be a Cabinet Secretary yet the speakers of the county assemblies cannot even be given the Moran of the Burning Spear (MBS). It will be good to recognize the county speaker. I also encourage that honours should be given to people in honour of what they do and where they are. Even if it is the President bestowing the honours, they are national honours. It is the nation honouring people because of the offices they hold. Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not want to see a situation where a first term Member in the National Assembly is given an honour while speakers and governors of counties have none. The governors who have titles are those who held them in their previous capacities. They are not catered for anywhere. We should legislate to say that when one becomes a governor, one merits some kind of honour that can go alongside their title of governor or a speaker of a county assembly. We should also list the Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) at the tail end of this pecking order. I am fully aware that when this becomes law, Ms. Sarah Serem will become more sensible and look at us differently. She will stop pretending not to know what a Senator or Member of the National Assembly does. She does not know the difference between the Senate and county assemblies. She even said that she wants Senators to tell her what they do from 8.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. When people get jobs that they do not merit, they start behaving in a bigoted manner like that and that is not right. The President, Deputy President, Speakers of Parliament, Chief Justice and Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces are allowed use of the national flag and siren. However, the Chief of Kenya Defence Forces normally does not fly the national flag. He flies the military flag. The Inspector-General of the National Police force does not also fly the national flag. He flies the special force flag. I would have extended this privilege to be extended to former Vice Presidents. If you have been a Vice President before, flying the national flag and using the siren, is only fair. We can deny them the flag but give them sirens. Someone like hon. Moody Awori needs a siren to clear the road for him as he goes about his business, if not for anything else. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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