{"id":674171,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/674171/?format=json","text_counter":415,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Temporary Speaker, Sir, I hope the Temporary Speaker assuming the Chair will not go down as the Chair who presided over the death of the ward and sub-county administrators. I hope he will add me one extra minute just to wrap up my argument. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this Senate needs to go back and look at the National Government Coordination Act that brings back the provincial administration. The Constitution is clear and the drafters of the Constitution intended that what we are calling the provincial administration ought to have been restructured to be in line with devolved governments. The roles played by agents of the national Government at the grassroots level, their roles and functions can be played by employees of county governments. The Constitution allows a situation where functions can be transferred from one level of government to the other. If chiefs and their assistants in the villages fighting alcohol, whereas the alcohol control is devolved, then there is no need to have two structures that are parallel. We as the Senate must go back to the Constitution and see to it that the intention of the drafters has been realised. The National Government Coordination Act has structures that are parallel to what we have under devolution. Therefore it is not making the lives of these village, ward and county administrators easy. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not support the proposal to tie the terms of these administrators to the general election. These officers were offered permanent jobs and if they misbehave and persist operating like youth wingers and political operatives yet they are civil servants, they should not engage in partisan politics. The county---"}