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The move by Parliament's Committee on Budget Appropriations to have county executives and Cabinet secretaries appointed from among elected leaders is welcome and timely.

We must reduce the wage bill and this is a sure way of kicking off the process.

We have many county executives who are paid a lot yet some do not even understand their roles or have work to do.

The proposal will ensure that elected members get extra work on top of their daily oversight role.

Previously, Cabinet secretaries, or ministers as they were called then, worked well and played an oversight role for the Executive.

Today, the Executive is paying for duplication of duties because the job of a CS is not so detailed as to warrant the hiring of experts.

Furthermore, the ones in office have turned out to be full-time politicians.

Keeping with the spirit of the Constitution, we would rather have Cabinet secretaries and county executive officials appointed from elected leaders so we can reduce the wage bill.

They can pay allegiance politically to the appointing authority rather than have the public relations gimmicks we have been treated to over the past four years.

Governors will have an easy time working and controlling county affairs, and the rampant impeachment threats and motions will reduce when they are the appointing authorities at county level.

Abolishing the Senate to reduce the wage bill is not a good idea at all; their role is clearly to oversee the counties.

This is a role that cannot be transferred.