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    "content": "ensure that they function properly such that when we do not have the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker will take over and ensure that business is discharged. We are facilitating to ensure that devolution works. The county assemblies and the county executive led by the speakers and governors, respectively, should work together. There are many county assemblies and governments that do not work together. There should be a seamless working relationship, so that the agenda of devolution is implemented. We should ensure that the county assemblies do not frustrate the governors’ agenda across our 47 counties. The MCAs should know that their responsibility is to be a conveyor belt to a better development agenda at the county levels. This is because devolution is the best thing to ever happen to our country. We are products of the new Constitution and should guard devolution jealously. Therefore, I agree that the office of deputy speaker is very important and we should also go beyond house business committees in the county assemblies. We should also have the speakers’ panels at that level to facilitate the governors’ agenda. However, our MCAs should not be a conveyor belt of looting, corruption or facilitating governors to misappropriate our resources. Finally, I agree with issues of County Executive Committee (CEC) members. Last term, when some of us were not in this Senate, it reached a point that some of the CEC members were declining executive orders. Not just orders of buying airtime to call somebody, sending messages or to do something mischievous. When you look at the CECs), it has been restructured to ensure they know their place. By the time five years were over, some of them had usurped governors’ power. We need to see some semblance of discipline and order in our counties when we oversight governors. The CECs should do what is expected of them. They should act within the law. If they do not follow the law to the letter, then they can lose their jobs. These amendments have come at the right time and we will give them the necessary support. We have already discussed them with the Council of Governors (CoG) and met several stakeholders on the same. Our duty is to ensure that we work hard so that these amendments are passed in this House. We want to see devolution working for all of us so that our country can move forward. Everybody will be its custodian to ensure we move forward and that Nyeri, Nairobi and other counties where, unfortunately, the county deputy governors will not be able to work as envisaged under Article 182 and mirrored Article 32(a), is addressed. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support these amendments."
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