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    "id": 1086349,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Yes, the IHRM. The problem we are having is that the Secretary, who is the technical advisor to the Board, does not require to be a professional. But the Chairman needs to be a member of the IHRM. Chairmanship and Human Resource issues are totally different. A chairman is a leader mandated to carry the vision of the Board and not to manage human resources. In my county, I could have a person I would like to be the Chairman of the Board. Now, because that person should be the one kowtowing with the Governor, he will be weakened or strengthened by the presence of a secretary who is not a professional, that is, one who cannot bring professionalism into the operations of the Board. So, based on just those two amendments, the Committee agrees that the Chair does not need to have those qualifications. So, the Committee is proposing an amendment which will remove that second amendment. We are only left with one amendment, which is now weakening devolution. I am looking at this Bill and do not even know why we started it in the first place. The Committee should have just recommended that we do not bother with it. I am recommending to this House that this Bill should not go beyond the Second Reading so that we do not waste time bringing in an amendment to basically delete what they have done and make it zero. If I bring an amendment to remove this alteration to the Public Secretary and the Committee brings one to remove the qualification of the Chair, then the Bill becomes zero because those are the only two amendments. So, I urge Members to re-think. We are putting Kshs400 billion into the counties annually. Cumulatively, I think we have done over Kshs2 trillion. The reason we are not getting part of that impact is that the professionalism that is required to support devolution is not there. The little that is there is now under threat of being removed. Soon, we will be talking of not even wanting accountants with professional qualifications. We will start the removal of the 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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