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    "id": 826816,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "would run the term of the governor like it is currently happening in Nyeri County. I am not against the individual but the principle. The minute you say that the deputy governor will continue the rest of the term if the governor dies or is incapacitated in any way, it puts all 47 governors in grave danger. Not all of them get into these relationships of deputy governor and governor because they love each other. Many of them do it because of convenience. When you look at a county and the broadness of a county, people pick a deputy governor from the other corner so that they can get votes. There is no love lost many times between the governor and the deputy governor. If you allow that kind of law which is happening and is what is being done, governors will require maybe as much security as the Head of State – their lives will be in danger. Assassinations would be possible and they will take place. This law has made it clear that the deputy governor will act for only a maximum of 60 days and then an election will be held. That makes the governor safer because the deputy governor has no assurance of making it even if they attempted anything. So, I think we are regularising and making sense of the laws. On the issue of election of speakers and deputy speakers, I am aware that the current law does not have a deputy speaker in the County Assemblies. It is a very strange situation. In fact, one of our assemblies was taken to court because of that. They had given an MCA the position of the deputy speaker. It was ruled by the court that there is no such position. In Machakos County, the person acting as a deputy speaker is actually called the chair of chairs. It is just like in the National Assembly where we have the Chair of the Liaison Committee, who is the Deputy Speaker. They do not use the term “deputy speaker”. It does not make sense to me. We require having a deputy in every office. In the absence of Hon. John Mbadi, Hon. Robert Mbui takes the management of the affairs of the coalition."
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