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(e) to protect and promote the interests and rights of minorities
and marginalised communities;
(f) to promote social and economic development and the
provision of proximate, easily accessible services throughout
Kenya;
(g) to ensure equitable sharing of national and local resources
throughout Kenya;
(h) to facilitate the decentralisation of State organs, their
functions and services, from the capital of Kenya; and
(i) to enhance checks and balances and the separation of
powers.
Principles
of devolved
government.
175. County governments established under this Constitution
shall reflect the following principles––
(a) county governments shall be based on democratic principles
and the separation of powers;
(b) county governments shall have reliable sources of revenue to
enable them to govern and deliver services effectively; and
(c) no more than two-thirds of the members of representative
bodies in each county government shall be of the same
gender.
Part 2—County Governments
County governments.
176. (1) There shall be a county government for each county,
consisting of a county assembly and a county executive.
(2) Every county government shall decentralise its functions
and the provision of its services to the extent that it is efficient and
practicable to do so.
Membership of
county assembly.
177. (1) A county assembly consists of—
(a) members elected by the registered voters of the wards, each
ward constituting a single member constituency, on the same
day as a general election of Members of Parliament, being
the second Tuesday in August, in every fifth year;
(b) the number of special seat members necessary to ensure that