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    "id": 676633,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Barua",
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        "legal_name": "Ejidius Njogu Barua",
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    "content": "being familiar in the area. This would bring in objectivity and eradicate the possibility of interference based on the knowledge of their past. If this is followed, it is not only going to be good for county governments, but also employees. The feeling of self-confidence and adequacy for a job one has been recruited on merit is going to give one the drive to serve better and be objective in his or her work. If this is not going to happen, we will have a situation where appointees will serve for a period of five years as long as the governor is in office. Otherwise, if one is elected based on other extraneous considerations, he or she may not objectively serve another governor in case of change of guard in office. In terms of powers of the committees, several people have ventilated on this. My opinion is that these committees may not necessarily be given powers of the High Court because the Committees of this House have those powers. The question we should ask ourselves is whether committees of county assemblies are equivalent, both in power and responsibilities, to Committees of the National Assembly. If they are equivalent in one way or the other, so be it, but if they are inferior, they should be equated to another position in the Judiciary. That is why I support Hon. Maanzo’s proposal that this Bill should recognise their powers as those of a senior magistrate."
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