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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Since his Motion is next, he could be consulting on it. This is something that I hope the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, chaired by Sen. Sakaja can look at. If you visit many counties where new governors took office, there are a lot of complaints about how public servants are being treated at the county level. We need to ask ourselves whether we are achieving the independence that was desired in the CPSB, so that it can run normally. Even with the bureaucracy that comes with political changes, it should remain to be lean and the county public servants are protected from the changes that have occurred in the political circle. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in this Bill we have detailed prescriptions on how equity should be achieved in a county. It also provides for how equitable distribution of jobs and protection of communities that are less than 30 per cent of the county will be achieved. The Bill is very detailed on that issue. Sen Sakaja spoke to the issue of independence of the speaker’s office and the requirement that it should remain 75 per cent. Even in this House the Speaker can only be removed by a two-thirds majority. Thus, we are trying to equalise the tradition and the practice in the Commonwealth on the standards of protection of the office of the speaker. I understand that in the counties, speakers and deputy speakers can easily be removed on very flimsy grounds. The standards in the last term were very low. By this time in the last term, the discussion around impeachment of governors was very high. I can see that the impeachment of governors and removal of speakers has been slowed. We will monitor this phenomenon in the next one year. It could be because governors have become more careful. In fact, let me bring to the attention of this House a very important decision that was made by the Supreme Court. It said that courts must not interfere with the processes of impeachment when they are still running. It was in the case of Gov. Wambora. That was the same argument we made on the Floor of this House and some characters in the media were castigating us. I do not want to say that one of us was there and is now sitting in this House. We are being told that if you criticise a decision of the court outside the court, that is contempt because of ignorance. When I was teaching at the University it was always about a critique of decisions of courts of 1940s. We would criticise from Lord Denning to the current judges and there is nothing wrong with that. You would either criticise by writing an article in a revered journal, teaching in class or by a discourse in public space. Those of us who were here criticised decisions of the court in how they were being misused to put a ground lock on a political process. I kept saying here that in the 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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