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    "content": "If you look at the duties that have been currently allocated, they have used the words that, ‘the governor may assign the deputy governor any other duty’. I will propose at the Committee Stage, that we delete the word ‘may’. I will persuade the Mover that we should use the word ‘shall’. It will then read that, ‘the governor shall assign any other duty to the deputy governor’. By doing so, we will have a deputy governor who will handle a certain docket and utilize him or her. There are Committees that deputy governors can handle very well, for example, the Committee on Finance. We have heard issues of money not arriving in the counties on time. However, if such a position was held by the deputy governor, I believe that it will be different. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my suggestion that will come later at the Committee Stage is that we need to firmly give some duties to the deputy governor so that we do not leave the governor with the sole responsibility of either giving or not giving responsibility to the deputy governor. I am surprised why a governor would not give a deputy governor duties yet the Constitution has been protective of the governor by allowing him or her to choose a running mate. The assumption is that the running mate, who is the deputy governor, is a friend not an enemy. If that person is a friend, what is the fear that immediately comes in and makes a governor not give clear duties to a deputy governor? That is the second amendment I will be introducing at the Committee Stage. All in all, I am very happy with the Bill and I beg to support it."
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