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    "content": "this country, it is headquartered in Nairobi City County. Why Nairobi City County specifically? Why are we overcrowding our capital city yet it is so clear and obvious that the facilities in this city cannot support such institutions. There is no reason why we should not have headquarters of some of these authorities in different parts of this country. When we talk about water, perhaps, we can take its authority to the furthest part of the country up North in Turkana County where Sen. (Prof.) Ekal comes from. It is not that they cannot host it. How will we develop other parts of the country if for every institution that we are coming up with, we want it headquartered here in Nairobi? The spirit and the thought of devolution was to continue sending resources to the counties and not only financial but even such facilities. How will people from certain parts of the country know that there exist different corners of the Nation, if for every issue to do with the national Government office, we are sending them to Nairobi? We have had enough of this City. The reason I am taking a lot of time pursuing this point is that I hope that for the first time, somebody can listen to those of us who have been campaigning that we need to move some of these offices from our Capital City and make amends to it. There are other various proposals that have been made about this Authority that we are setting up. For example, in Part II of the Authority under the structure – I am speaking generally about the structure of the Authority – is that: “The Authority shall exercise all powers necessary to enable it perform its functions under this Act, without prejudice to the generality of foregoing---” Then they provide a list. Many of the times it says, ‘in consultation with county governments, CSs’ and such. Yet, when you go to the composition of the Board, you find that this Board has about nine members with only two members from the county governments. I strongly feel that because this is a Bill that, by and large, will encompass a good relation between county and national Government, it would have been better if we had more representatives of county governments, perhaps three or four. This is because these people will be nominated by the Council of Governors (CoG) based at Delta House here. I want to imagine how much work we are placing on these two people to have a general feel of all the 47 counties and represent the feelings of all of us in that Board. It would have been more important to even have more representation from counties than we have from people who are generated from the national Government. The spirit of devolution is such that for every year, as we continue to make progress as a country, we continue to send more resources and functions and even thoughts and organisations of such authorities should be reflective of our desire to say, let us have self-determination amongst our people. Therefore, it is my sincere thought that in this organisation of this Board that is being proposed, the number of two as representatives of county governments is too low. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is also something that I have noted. As a lawmaker, I am specific in how we use words. We have had court cases and Kenya is becoming an increasingly litigant nation where for every small detail, they end up in 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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