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    "id": 780197,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I would like to congratulate the hon. Senator for this Assumption of Office of the County Governor Bill, 2018. I support it wholeheartedly because it has tightened quite a number of loose areas. I want to join colleagues who have said that the experience we have had in the first handing over of the first governor to the second ones had a lot of challenges but this Bill has largely addressed them. However, I would like to touch on two or three areas. One, Part II of the Bill is on the membership of the Committee which has two chief officers of the outgoing governor except for two members who are appointed by the governor. In fact, the county secretary is also an appointee of the outgoing governor. It looks like it will be heavily on the side of the outgoing governor. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will be persuading the Mover of the Bill at the Committee Stage, to introduce another person in the name of an appointee from the Judiciary, for example, a magistrate. We need somebody from a neutral arm of Government to oversee this. In fact, in the amendment, I would like to propose that the same person coming from the neutral arm of Government should be the chairperson of the Committee. This is because of what my colleagues have said that, if an outgoing 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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