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    "content": "So, they have come up with all manner of legislations some of which contradict the national ones and there is nobody to check on them. The other thing that I wanted to mention is that the Attorney-General is the repository of all of our legislations and has the history in terms of when we are coming up with a legislation. He is able to check back and forth in terms of whether what you are talking about exists or not and whether it contradicts what we have or not. The role that the Attorney-General plays particularly at the national level ought to have been played by somebody at the county level. That has been missing. So, it is important that this is set up quickly. The other thing that I wanted to bring up is that we are confusing the office and the person. Some of us are talking about the attorney general in terms of the person. They are forgetting that when we are looking at this, we should also look at the attorney general, the office. The Office of the Attorney-General is a big bureaucracy in this country. Our Attorney- General has all manner of departments. There is a solicitor, treaties and issues of registration of companies and associations. We have the Public Trustee and all kinds of things. That is a big bureaucracy, but some of our colleagues are talking as though when we are talking about the attorney general at the county level, we are talking about the person that is supposed to be appointed. For sure, there is the person. In our national arrangement, there is the Attorney- General; the person, who is appointed through our processes that are clear, but he becomes a policy officer heading a big bureaucracy. That is exactly what we need to look at when we look at county governments. The attorney general that we are setting up at the county is a smaller version, but a clear replica of what we have at the national level. When we look at it that way, and check to see that it has been working, there is no need of coming up with all these proposals about the term of office and many other things. We just need to replicate what we have at the national level and place that at the county level, if this has worked, unless we are suggesting to either improve or change things that we think are not working well. In my view, that ought to have been the situation. The idea of a governor and the attorney general must transcend more than one governor and all the kind of things that contradict the arrangement that we have at the national level. So, I support the coming up with the attorney general’s office at the county level immediately. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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