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    "content": "county, we have 12 aspirants and other counties have 20 aspirants. You cannot have a committee where you have aspirants nominating persons to sit in the committee. Let us appreciate that the quorum of the committee is something that needs to be looked at. The law provides for one-third. However, in our committee, we felt that it should be half. Even if you were to raise that threshold, that means you can only raise it to a maximum of two-thirds. Therefore, with or without the two persons, you can still run the committee for 30 days before the elections and you will have no problem because you do not have a governor-elect. That means the positions of the two persons will only be filled after having a governor-elect. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is also important to note that we need to allow each of the 47 counties to infuse some sense of their own county pride in the swearing in process of a new governor, so that a county like ours can have traditional dancers performing traditional songs. Let us allow some bit of flexibility so that once you secure the solemn and very important responsibility, the other issues can be left to the machinations of every county because every other county will want to present their culture and tradition and blend it within the swearing in process. That should be the case so that you have various colourful functions in the name of swearing in of governors across the various counties without losing sight of the very important aspect of swearing in a governor in accordance with the law. Regarding the timelines, as a committee, we agreed that you need to make the period between the elections and the swearing in of a new governor to be as brief as possible but not too brief to allow for planning. In our Committee, we were of the opinion that 14 days would be enough. We need to be aware that as you want to allow more time to the sitting or outgoing governor to put together the list of debts and a catalogue of the county assets and liabilities, if you give too much time, the same outgoing governor might use it to try and clean up the books of accounts of the county to try and address certain things that may not be useful. Therefore, the maximum time should be between 7 and 14 days so that you have the new team of leadership coming to take over. We have several proposed amendments as a Committee. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the other issue I want to address is the oath of office or the oath to be taken by a governor. The Constitution provides for the President, the Deputy President, Members of Parliament (MPs) and other officials to take oath of office but it has not provided for the oath to be taken by a governor. That particular oath needs to be looked at. We might propose a few changes so that you realign it to what is provided for within the Constitution like that of the President, the Deputy President and also the other elected leaders. That will be very critical at this point. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, finally, we need to know that not every aspect of swearing in of a governor will be captured within legislation. As a country, we need to develop some sense of tradition and culture in that and this should be unique to each of the various counties. We need to develop good manners in politics. If a sitting governor has been voted out by his constituents, he must behave honorably and handover to the incoming governor. We hope that we will not see theatrics of goons being hired to boo the incoming governor. We also hope that we will not have overenthusiastic supporters of an incoming governor booing the outgoing governor. We need proper manners so that as 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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