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    "content": "ahead to establish the CPSB and gives it powers. If you read the powers, you will realise that it is more or less the defacto head, manager, operator and maintainer of a County Public Service. In counties where county secretaries have been seconded from the national Government and are individuals with significant experience in Government bureaucracy, they have made life difficult for the CPSBs. Sometimes they contend that since the Act says that they are the head of the County Public Service, it means that the CPSBs will report to and fall under them. The drafters of this Act had something in mind when they said that the CPSBs, in terms of removal, shall be subject to Article 251 of the Constitution. It meant that they felt that the CPSBs should enjoy some level of independence that has only been granted to constitutional commissions in the Constitution under Article 251. It needs to be clear that whereas we have the county secretaries, the responsibility of managing, staffing, disciplining staff, establishing offices and transferring staff falls within the ambit of the CPSBs, and not the governor or the county secretary. These administrators must be made to feel that they are being supervised and administered by the board, but not individuals in the governor’s office. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is also important that we consider the National Government Coordination Act. The Constitution is clear that within five years from the date of enactment of this Constitution---"
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