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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, the other departments do have the same structures. If it is education or health, it goes up to sub-county or even in some cases to ward level. If you look at what happens at the national Government, when a new President is sworn in, it is only Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) and Principal Secretaries (PSs) who are supposed to be employed by a new president. That means that other systems all the way up to the district level remain in place. In the Provincial Administration structure, we have sub- chiefs, chiefs, District Officers (DOs) going all the way to below the CS in the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is no time where these administrators have been asked to leave because they had been serving a particular president. In this Bill, there is nowhere where it is said that the county government which has been created by a particular governor should leave with him so that we form another government. Why do we target only some particular cadres in the county governments? If it is because of the way they conduct themselves, because that is what was coming out when the Mover was moving this Bill; that should not be the case because they are supposed to be serving the government in place. When a new governor comes in, we expect them to serve the next government the way they used to serve the previous one. So, we cannot target particular officers because they are loyal to the governor. They might not be doing the right thing by equally not serving well the other county leadership but they are supposed to implement the programmes and policies of a particular individual who is the governor in the county government. They are supposed to make sure that they oversight whatever activities that government is doing. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, therefore, targeting these particular officers in my case will be discriminatory. If a new governor wants to employ his own staff, then it should be everybody right from the directors downwards. That means that all of them should leave office once the governor leaves and that will not be practical because we will be reinventing the wheel each and every time. There will be no continuity. The public will be subjected to one year of formation of government every five years. The programmes that another government had started implementing will have to stop before the new government comes in. They will have to start learning the ropes of the works and that will always disrupt service delivery. That is why even in the national Government, only the top cadre that deals with policy formulation is the one supposed to change because when a new Government comes in, it might have a different manifesto and policy. That is why the new president has to have new sets of CSs and PSs. The same case should apply to counties. If you look at the law, the County Executive Committee (CEC) members and the Chief Officers (COs) may have to leave office with the governor so that both the two executive arms of government at the county and national level have similar structures. The Bill also seeks to include academic qualification for the offices of sub-county administrator, ward administrator and village administrator. As the initial Bill is, it does not clearly specify what qualifications the holder of each of these offices should have. So, in this case, the Bill has gone ahead to clearly state that for you to be engaged as a sub- 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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