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    "id": 1013537,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1013537/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. Let me also take this opportunity to congratulate or thank our colleague who has come up with these amendments to the Public Service Commission (Amendment) Bill. The spirit of the amendment is two folds: One, to have adequate succession planning and secondly, to create room for upward mobility of the young graduates and middle level workers or middle aged workers to rise in the Civil Service. On that score, they are commendable amendments that all of us need to support without conditions or reservations. However, two issues are clearly emerging. The first is the one on succession planning. Indeed, any trained HR person, any serious board of directors and any serious policy making board of any organisation must always prioritise succession planning at any given time. It looks ridiculous and it is actually, a dereliction of duty or failed governance for somebody to get to a point of retirement and he cannot be allowed to because there is nobody competent enough to take over those positions. We sit in too many committees where many of the accounting officers will come and tell you they retain somebody in the payroll on contract basis because there was no one competent. We suppose with the passing of this amendment, the Public Service Commission (Amendment) Bill, the relevant boards will prioritise succession planning and ensure that within the rank and file, they start preparing people or persons to take over positions that people exit. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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