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    "id": 826807,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "Kimunya that, that convening should be done by the President. That is so that we remove the notion that there is political power we were devolving. There are units that exist autonomously – totally devoid or independent of what is happening at the national level. We do not want the national Government to come and interfere with normal learning. But, let us have some order in the country. We seem to have lost that order. I think that is important. Again, we have the issue of how we fill the position of the deputy governor when that position falls vacant. Members have contributed to it. It is useful. One of the reasons the position of Deputy President was put in the Constitution, if I recall, was because this country at one time went for 14 months without a Vice President. We thought that is very dangerous because the President could meet his day any time within the 14 months. We kept saying “God forbid”. These things happen. For that reason, we said there is need for the position of the Deputy President. We can now see this happening with the governors. They do not want to have deputy governors. It is very dangerous to us. We do not want this lacuna. I support the provision that allows us to have a clear way of getting a deputy governor into office, as quickly as is possible. We now have grounds upon which a speaker can be impeached. It is also very useful so that we do not think of issues that are not very useful to us as a country including the ones like “you did not allow me to travel to go and benchmark or someplace” which have been mentioned. For that reason, the speaker is impeached. When we have grounds that have been set out clearly, it is useful for us. It also saves us these many court cases that we have. The provisions that MCAs can also be recalled and the grounds upon which recall can be done are contained in the Bill and it is useful. As we call upon others to perform, it should not be left that MCAs cannot be recalled or grounds for their recalling set out. We have the issue of the CPSBs. I think this is a disaster. We sought to create some autonomy by allowing the counties to employ their own staff, independent of the Public Service Commission here in Nairobi. While the intentions were good and they still are, we need to really introduce a lot of controls – some way of allowing these people to do some work in a professional manner. We have provided that for this to be done professionally, we have said the governor should select a panel. That is useful but, if we leave it to the governor alone to select that a panel, I do not think it is very useful. Let me say one final thing – the role of the nominated MCAs. What the governors do is that, immediately they are in office, they get all the nominated MCAs and put them in their camps. They start working with them."
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