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    "id": 70523,
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    "content": "Local Government Act, 1997, District Commissioners were appointed by the Ministry of Local Government to represent Government interest in local authorities. After the amendment of the Act in 1997, the act of treating DCs as councilors in the local authorities was discontinued. In 2003, the Minister for Local Government re-introduced the appointment of public officers in local authorities as councilors to represent Government interests. The objective of the appointment was to ensure that Government policies are implemented at local level. The Minister for Local Government under the Kenya Gazette Supplement 118 of 16th November, 2007 on establishment of local authorities provided that under Section 4(b), the number of councilors nominated under local authority and one who shall be a public officer, the legal notice empowers the Minister to appoint a public officer formerly appointed as a Government representative. (b) The gazettement of all pending changes made by sponsoring political parties through the Interim Independent Electoral Commission for nomination of councilors will be done in two weeks time. I wish to also include in the same Kenya Gazette edition, the appointment of public officers as appropriate. While I have received communication from the IIEC on Sarah Areman, there is no communication from the IIEC on Jackson Apenyu Imana."
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