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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "Those are the powers of the governor. For the deputy governor, other than stating in general terms in Article 179(4) that the deputy governor is the deputy chief executive officer of the county, the Constitution provides no specific functions or roles for the deputy county governor. Those of you who want to be deputy governors or you have friends and relatives who have an interest, tell them to read the Constitution first, the way a customer reads a menu in a restaurant. If one does not understand the recipes in the menu, you then need to call the waiter or the chef to explain the responsibilities so that you understand. Otherwise, once you order the food, you must eat it; and you are condemned to eat it. If you do not, you pay and leave. As I have said earlier, other than in general terms in Article 179(4), which says he is the deputy chief executive, there are no other functions described in the Constitution. Therefore, the governor has nearly 40 functions. The County Governments Act extends this Constitutional ambiguity by describing the functions and roles of the deputy county governor in Section 32(2) as simply to deputize the governor in the execution of the governor’s functions. However, the same Section 32 empowers the governor to assign his or her deputy any other responsibility or portfolio as a County Executive Committee Member. However, in doing so, the governor cannot assign or delegate functions of the governor relating to nomination, appointment or dismissal, which are conferred by the Constitution or any other law. I now turn to two important terms, which will be the determinant of my conclusion. This is vacancy in the office of the governor versus absence of the governor."
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