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    "id": 1083231,
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    "speaker_name": "Baringo CWR, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladwell Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. He does not know me. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you so much for giving me this chance to also discuss this Bill in the House, together with my colleagues. At the outset, the amendment Bill is good despite the fact that there are a few things that need to be looked into and many Members have discussed them. This Bill seems to have come late. We have been asking questions on how things are being transacted down there in our counties. It is high time that we check on what is happening through Bills and other methods that we can use. As a Parliament, is it really in order for us to do budgets for county governments but, when it comes to checks and balances, we are not even able to come up with Bills or amendment Bills that can ensure that the money that we give to them helps the people? The county service boards can be compared to the Public Service Commission at the national Government. We know that when devolution came, county governments were given the right to employ. However, for a long time, people have not been happy about it because we have seen a lot of ethnicity at the county service boards. County service boards are employing people of certain tribes, rewarding political friends and leaving professionalism aside. When we talk about professionalism, my colleague, Hon. Chris Wamalwa, was so particular that a human resource person should be the secretary of the county service board. I want to know if that is a replica of what happens at the Public Service Commission or are we reinventing the wheel for the county governments. If at the national Government we have a secretary with no specific technical or skillful qualifications, why would we expect so much for the county governments? I support the Women’s Representative for Migori that the minimum qualification for those positions should be a degree. We do not lack people who have those qualifications. There are so many degree-holders flooding the country. There are many people who have degrees. There is no shortage of people who have degrees. It only becomes a problem when people become a bit selfish and want to set the qualifications in a manner that is skewed towards a particular person that they want to give the position to. Even for members of parliament and members of the county assemblies, it is no longer an excuse. In any case, the postponement has given people enough time to get a degree. If you wanted to go and study, by now you would have a degree. Therefore, we should now be discussing the minimum qualification being a degree in any field. 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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