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    "content": "professor he is. I join them in congratulating you on a well researched communication pointing out the right provisions of the law and the Constitution. I like the reminder that you put there that a governor is a CEO of a county while the deputy governor is the deputy CEO. That is a reminder that in so far as accountability is concerned, the governor is like a Managing Director (MD) of a parastatal or any other institution of Government that one presides over. Therefore, they cannot run away from responsibility merely on an account of an excuse that one governor and one Senator disagreed in a Committee meeting. If anything, just as Sen. Wako has pointed out, the aggrieved governor for Nairobi County even without the prompting of your communication, already appeared before the said Committee and answered the questions that were required. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the message that we must pass out there as you pointed out from the judgment of the court, that while over sighting county governments, the Senate has a responsibility, that if they summon any governor, he must be willing to come because there is no constitutional mechanism of shielding a governor from arrest or contempt of summons from this House. However, as Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'- Nyong'o has said, there has been erroneous debate out there that Senators must not aspire to be governors. That debate is stretched because we do not only oversight counties, but the President and the Deputy President as well. This House has a responsibility if a President or the Deputy President is brought before us on a matter of impeachment, we are the ones to decide whether that President will go home or not. Therefore, to imagine that a Senator cannot run for the governor’s seat is similar to saying that a Senator cannot run for presidency. It is also similar to saying that Members of the National Assembly must not imagine of being Presidents because they oversight institutions of national Government. It is also similar to saying that a Member of the County Assembly (MCA) should not run for governor’s seat because they oversight county governments. The responsibility of determining who runs for what office is provided for already by the people of Kenya in the Constitution which states that a person who runs for presidency must meet certain qualifications and provides exclusions that one cannot run for office, including if you are an Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) officer. There is no exclusion for the Senators from running for one office or the other. Therefore, I encourage those that are going to be governors to continue with their ambitions, but assure them that should the governors be brought here in future and should I come back here by the will of the people of Elgeyo-Marakwet County, we will robustly oversight and summon them in the same manner that they are doing to other governors whether it is Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'- Nyong'o or Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. I would be glad if I come back here as a Member of the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee and summoned the king of Meru if need be. However, the experience they have received here, I believe that most of them are going to do a fantastic job, and there will be no need for them to come here to answer queries. I support your communication."
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