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    "content": "how appointments by the governors will be done. They will be approved by county assemblies. This is very good for checks and balances, if I may use the language of the former Archbishop of the Anglican Church. Without checks and balances, the governors have a way of controlling attorney generals like it is happening now. The other issue raised by this Bill is qualifications. The qualification of these people is about five years’ experience, but many Members have indicated that threshold should be raised to be at the level of a High Court Judge. Later in the Committee of the whole House, when we shall be looking at this Bill, I would wish that we allow the threshold to be slightly lower because we have properly schooled youth or people in Kenya who have the capacity to run these offices and they should be given a chance. Otherwise, when we raise the threshold too high, we shall not be developing capacities within our young people to start exercising what they learned. I think this is a good level for our young lawyers who are well qualified and went to nice universities, like it was indicated by the Mover, to start practising so that later on when they become Attorney Generals at the national level, they will be well qualified. The other issue that this Bill addresses is the term of office. It talks of a term of six years. One Member mentioned that the Bill talks of five years, but the copy I have talks about six years. I do not know if we are reading from different Bills. I am holding mine; it is white in colour. I would want to support a term of six years because this is an office that will provide continuity. One problem that has bedeviled county governments, particularly the first governors, is the issue of keeping documents. This is one of the functions that has been given to this office. When the first governors left office…"
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