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    "content": "governor is malicious, he is completely protected by 90 per cent of the membership of this Committee. If he is protected, it will be extremely difficult for the incoming governor to have a free handing over. We know that sometimes our campaigns are extremely acrimonious and immediately it is announced that there is a new governor, God knows what happens between the time the announcement is made and the time this Committee takes off. It is important to have a few more neutral people to take care of that. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in Clause 10, the county public officer has to provide information for purposes of the preparations for assumption of office. It is a nice statement but difficult to implement. Clause 10(1) states that: “The Committee shall, in consultation with the governor-elect carry out such preparations as may be necessary for the purpose of the assumption of office by the governor-elect” It is a nice statement which further states that the governor-elect will be entitled to information. However, it can only protect for purposes of information flow. If 90 per cent of the members of the Committee are loyal to the outgoing governor, it will be difficult for the incoming one to know the information that is required. The challenges that we had between the county governments and county councils was that the new governors assumed office not knowing anything about the defunct county councils. They did not know what to claim or where the assets were. If an asset register was hidden from them, they were at a loss. This is exactly what the Transitional Authority (TA) confessed; that most of the defunct county councils behaved as though they did not have asset registers. It was well known that asset registers were there before because information that filtered thereafter was about income that was being collected before the county governments came in. The disparities between what was being collected by the county governments and the defunct county councils showed that there were areas that were not disclosed to the county governments. It is important that as we develop a Committee for the assumption of office, we also have a Committee that can do a thorough job. Lastly, a deputy governor has been described as one person who does not seem to have duties. In the last five years, we have heard even in the press that deputy governors were mistreated by not being given duties. Some of them went to their offices and did not manage to do anything. They read newspapers the whole day and went home. The County Executive Committee (CEC) Members also did not report to the deputy governors and so they hung in between the CECs and the governors. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if the position of a deputy governor is as important as the Constitution says, we must then see its importance in the functions. If you compare the duties allocated to the deputy president and the duties allocated to the deputy governor, you will find that there is a lot of difference. The same applies to the position of the former Vice President because they were given duties. The Vice President used to be the Minister for Home Affairs or the Minister for Finance. They woke up in the morning having an agenda of their own. If this position of the deputy governor is that useful, it is important, therefore, that we allocate it something. 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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