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    "id": 1083152,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Limuru, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Mwathi",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Mungai Mwathi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Allow me to take this again because of the slight interruption. I was saying that the County Governments (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bill No. 13 of 2018) was read for the first time on Wednesday, 24th April 2019 and subsequently committed to the Committee pursuant to provisions of Standing Order 127(1) to report to this House. The Committee considered the Bill in its sitting held on Friday, 16th August 2019 and adopted its report on Thursday, 5th September 2019. The principal object of this Bill is to amend section 58 of the County Governments Act (No. 17 of 2012) to provide for the following: (a) To remove the qualification of a secretary to the board as one who is certified public secretary of good professional standing. (b) To provide certainty on the role of the secretary to the board as one who has no right to vote at any meeting of the board. (c) To obligate the governor to observe constitutional principles in nominating or appointing persons as members of the board. (d) To provide for additional stipulations and requirements for one to be eligible to serve as a chairperson, such as being a registered as a human resource management official and have at least 10 years working experience. The Committee noted the following: (a) On the amendments relating to the secretary to the county public service board, in all government institutions, a secretary to a board does not need to have qualifications of certified public secretary. This qualification should be provided as an added advantage where there is advertisement of such a position. There is need to provide for qualifications of the secretary of the board in order to curb endorsement of persons who are not qualified by a governor who would probably pick somebody who does not have qualifications that can endear him to that job. (b) On amendment relating to new Clause 1B, the principle of gender equity, ethnic and other diversities of the people of Kenya and representation of persons with disability should be deleted for the simple reason that they are mere repetition of Articles 10, 27 and 232 of the Constitution. Secondly, there is need to qualify paragraph (b) to provide that the governor should take into account the national values and principles of governance as set out in the Constitution to the extent practicable. That means we are obligating the governor to adhere to the national values and principles of governance as set out in the Constitution. (c) With regard to sub-section (3)(c), there is need to include qualifications of a vice-chairperson with that of a chairperson, the reason being that a vice- chairperson is to carry out duties of the chairperson in the absence of the latter. That means if you have a vice-chairperson with less qualification, then the output might not be as intended by the law. The proposed paragraph (2) inordinately curves and fixes the position of only human resource management professional as persons qualified. The reasoning behind this is that there are people who can hold managerial positions but who necessarily do not have to be human resource management professionals as a qualification. Therefore, that is going to be one of the amendments that the Committee is going to propose."
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