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    "content": "The Supreme Court was called upon to fill in the gap created by the crisis in the counties of Nyeri and Nairobi. Nairobi County has not appointed a deputy governor in the timelines provided. Nyeri County has appointed their Governor and moved on. Although the Senator for Nyeri County was proposing that a Senator should be given a role in the appointment of a governor in the case of the counties of Nyeri and Nairobi, which we did not agree with, the fact is that there is a lacuna in the County Governments Act. He was trying to find, just like any good leader, a method of covering it. In the last Session, I moved an amendment to have county governments protected under the Government Proceedings Act. This is because, in the transition between the Local Government Act and the County Governments Act, we forgot to give county governments the same immunity that the local governments used to have. The result is that the debtors of the previous councils began attaching goods of county governments yet it is the government as understood under the Constitution. So, this is yet another gap. I will propose and I have sought the opinion and the concurrence of the Mover, Sen. Cheruiyot, – I am very pleased by this gentleman – that, first, we have another amendment to cater for deputy governors. The second one that I want to propose is a very strange thing. In the CPSB, the secretary, who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is not a member and he or she is not supposed to sit in the board. It is not express. So, some chairpersons who like the secretaries invite the secretaries while others do not. So, you can imagine, in these CPSBs that we are passing here, there are secretaries who do not sit in the deliberations of who is going to be hired or not. 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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