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    "id": 1021825,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. Mine is to agree largely with colleagues that we thank Mr. Mutembei for having faith in the Senate. However, I want to agree with most of our colleagues that we should not be in the business of micromanaging the running of county affairs through the County Public Service Board or human resource. I wish this matter would have come to this House as a matter of general policy and principles, where the guidance of the Senate should have been sought. Mr. Speaker, Sir, finally, I want to invite colleagues to look at Article 234 (2) (i) of the Constitution. It says- “Hear and determine appeals in respect of the county governments’ public service”. On this matter, the Petitioner should have exhausted other means of appeal because if we continue looking at individual cases across all the 47 county governments-- - Mr. Speaker, Sir, I agree there could be many issues in terms of human resource, wage bill and many other issues that bedevil our counties, but my advice to the Petitioner is that he should find a way of ensuring the county government’s public service board--- I remember once upon a time I was a Member of Committee on Labour and Social Welfare under the Chairperson., Sen. Sakaja, and we had reached the level of having a National County Public Service Act or an umbrella body that would have looked into these issues. Be that as it may, the Petitioner can still use the national Public Service Commission (PSC) to sort out some of these issues that they might have grievances on. I know that they have a right under Article 41 on the labour rights. They should use such avenues to ensure that this issue can be resolved once and for all. I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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