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    "id": 1023879,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Patrick Musimba",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Mweu Musimba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. It is indeed a momentous thing to have a Bill such as this discussing values and principles. The overriding responsibility unto every Kenyan, as you are being employed, is about the lives and livelihoods of our Kenyan people as opposed to where you are coming from and the balances that are there. It is good that the Report calls upon all the service commissions to give us a listing on a year-to-year basis. However, I want to echo one of the things that Hon. Munyasi said: that equally, there must also be penalties for non-adherence to the law once we pass it. That in the event that a certain service commission be it the PSC, the Parliamentary Service Commission or the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) does not adhere to these principles, then the accounting officer or the Human Resource (HR) officers are held to account. This leads us to go to the next level where Kenya ought to have one singular hiring body, which is harmonised for all the counties and the service commissions, so that we have a first-in- first-out basis in terms of applications. So that the State corporations and commissions simply make a request and say: we want an engineer of this calibre. Then we go to a unified database and fish out the person. This is so that listed persons living with disabilities (PWDs) and people who are retiring can be captured and balanced in the database. For every person who is about to retire we will know that we are going to hire for the organisation. We have to respond to emerging opportunities which are coming through all sectors that are not encouraged within our university systems. We had a debate at a point in time saying that particular programmes within our universities ought to be scrapped, but these are critical. We need to encourage people to study psychology and sociology because they are needed for cohesion and better management. We are having increased rate of people committing suicide and others frustrated with diseases that can be cared for. Such frustration within society is heavily limited by having the human resource becoming an amalgamated function that serves Kenyans and looks at communities and says: in such and such a community, do they have engineers, doctors, lawyers, architects, carpenters and plumbers? That way, we then encourage institutions around those communities and societies, now that the Government put up a policy to have a university per county and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions spread across the country. The people there should be able to fill those spaces. So it is, indeed, timely and we need to encourage it. But, as we move to the Committee of the whole House, we should put in penalties and mechanisms to ensure that we are working towards one cohesive nation that grows its Gross Domestic Product."
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