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    "id": 1013500,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "I also support the proposal to encourage succession planning that is in the proposed Bill. Many times when people leave office, it is like we are disorganised. It is as if we do not know who is going to take over and how soon. That is why we find people operating in acting capacity for so long. The Chief Executive Officer of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) worked in an acting capacity for years and yet, he had all the qualifications that are required to have taken up that office almost immediately. It is important that we encourage people to be confirmed in appointment within six months. They do not need to be paid acting allowances, which are proposed to be stopped. I support in saying that the Executive should be pushed to recruit and confirm those people within that period because it is possible. I encourage succession planning. That is a very good step. When officers serve in acting capacity for so long, it shows that the organisation is a little disorganised. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a step in the right direction. As the Chair said, there will be opportunity to discuss it later in the Committee of the whole House. We can propose amendments to make the Bill better."
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