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    "id": 826786,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/826786/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "us through a Gazette Notice. Is there a head of state for the county? This is the distinction we need to bring out, that whatever is done by the President does not get replicated at county level by the governor. The governor is not the President of Kenya. He is not a head of state at the county level. There is no head of state at the county level. So, we need to amend that section. I wish the Chair of the Committee or the Members of the Committee are here, so that during the Committee of the whole House, we can bring an amendment to replace the title ‘governor’ with the President so that the President, acting as the Head of State, can have the power to convene the county assemblies for the first time. That will insulate the county assemblies from being subjected to the whims of governors . The first day a county governor convenes an Assembly, he becomes superior to the Assembly. He decides when the Assembly sits at his convenience and, obviously, he reminds them that he has power over them because he is the one who decides when they can sit through publication of a Gazette Notice. We must remove that power from the governor and take it to the Head of State because the county assembly is a critical cog within the governance system of this country. If we are going to do anything to these amendments, I would ask that we first of all look at Clause 7B. The Constitution was silent in terms of who convenes the county assemblies, but it gave that responsibility, in respect of the national Parliament, to the President, acting as the Head of State but not as Head of the Executive. The county governor and his team of CEC Members on one hand and the county assembly on the other, are two arms of the county government which check one another. If you subject the county assembly to the governor from day one, then there is no way you are going to get any accountability through the county assembly. He will always be telling them that he is the boss and that he convened the county assembly yet the two are supposed to have checks and balances at par."
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