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    "id": 1050046,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, we in the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare have asked ourselves how we can address the wage bill in our counties. This is because some counties, 75 per cent of their revenue is on recurrent expenditure. Of that recurrent expenditure, a huge portion of it is on staff. How do we streamline that? Madam Temporary Speaker, we proposed a Bill on County Public Service Boards, but we want to refine it. This is because when you go to a county, you find there are three categories of staff. You will find there are staff who were seconded from the national Government when the functions were being transferred. They are on their own schemes of service. Their pension is different through the superannuation scheme in the national level. You find staff who had been in the councils already and staff who the governor employed. I am not saying there is a problem with that. So, you find three people doing the same exact work under three different regimes, three different schemes of service and different salaries. Even the motivation to work cannot be there because why would you be paid twice or half of what I am being paid for doing the same job? The legacy of this Twelfth Senate must be on how to sort out that labour issue. That is why we are proposing a National Labour Summit this year after the Devolution Conference. This is because at the Devolution Conference, we might only speak for one or two hours on labour issues. However, we want to look at that because unless you have the right human resource in a county, you cannot expect to have a good product at the tail end of the audit because you do not have the correct staff to implement what is required. You do not have the right capacity to even do internal audits. We also do not have the right capacity in the finance departments to make sure that money is used properly. We will be proposing to the House that the Senate holds the National Labour Summit. We are looking at the issues of inter-county transfers to make sure that if you are hired in Kisii, you can go and work in Mombasa because we have balkanized our country. Our counties are ethnic balkans. You might even be a Kikuyu, but you are told you are not from Kirinyaga, so you will not get a job in Kirinyaga, go to Nyeri where you are from. You might be Wafula and you are told, “no”, you are from Bungoma, do not come and work in Kakamega. We must change that. The purpose of devolution was not to create 47 ethnic balkans, but to make sure that we deliver through the principle of subsidiarity proper services to the"
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