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    "content": "With regard to the passage of a Motion for the approval of appointment of a deputy governor, I am happy that in Clause 11, while amending Clause 32D(4), it says:- ‘A Motion for the approval for appointment of a deputy governor- the appointment of a deputy governor shall be supported by a majority of the Members of the county assembly’. This means, in my own interpretation, that you are not subjecting the same measure it takes to reverse maybe the election of a speaker, a County Executive Member and placing the same demands on someone who has just been freshly elected to office. Otherwise, if you set the threshold too high, then nobody may be approved in the long run. It is not easy to gather two-thirds of the Members of the County Assembly (MCAs). Many of our counties have MCAs from across the political divide where, for example, you will find that Jubilee has X members and the National Super Alliance (NASA) has Y members. If you place upon them that demand for the approval of a deputy governor, all it will take to bar his or her approval is having members of the opposing political coalition refusing to assent to that Motion, and the office will stay vacant for a certain period of time. However, when you put the threshold as just a simple majority, then it becomes easy; it reduces the cases of extortion and those kinds of things that we have heard about in terms of what people sometimes go through in our county assemblies. Therefore, this is extremely important. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the county that I represent, the assembly passed a Motion for the removal of some County Executive Committee (CEC) members. However, because the county governor did not agree with the decision of the county assembly, he refused to act on the instructions of the county assembly and that CEC member remained in office. The governor even advised that CEC member to go ahead and seek relieve from our courts – and you know how generous our courts are with such matters – and the CEC member continued to serve in office for more than a year. This was rather unfortunate because county assemblies need to be respected because when they make a decision, they are doing so on behalf of the residents of the county. Therefore, when a Motion has been brought properly before the county assembly and it has garnered the requisite number of support to send a CEC member packing, then that decision should be respected. Unfortunately, Clause 13, which seeks to amend Section 40 of the principal Act, has listed the grounds upon which a CEC member can be removed from office. However, they have not gone ahead to explain what happens and what we should do when the governor does not comply with these conditions. Maybe we need to think of what to do in such a case. Moving on to Clause 14, which seeks to amend Section 44 of the principal Act; it reads that:- “The Governor shall, for the purpose of competitive recruitment of a county secretary under subsection (2), constitute a selection panel in accordance with Section 58A(2).” This is also extremely important because in the principal Act, the procedure is not properly set out yet the office of a county secretary is a very important one. Elevation to 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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