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    "id": 1086350,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Secretary, the accountant, the medics, and other professionals. The next thing is that we will be back to the old county councils where councillors would just sit around there and do things in their own way. The amount of money we are giving and the hope our people have with the 14 devolved functions, we are relying on these people to sort out agriculture. The county public service board recruits people and places them into positions. If it is not professional, how will they advocate for a professional chief executive officer (CEO)? It is so unfortunate having come from the Senate. We would have expected it to come from a county assembly that wants to appoint one of their own, but certainly not from the body that has been constitutionally mandated to protect devolution and the interest of counties. This is weakening and unfortunate that the Senate considered this and thought it is the best thing to happen. Trying to weaken the very institution with the core of providing and sorting out manpower, womanpower or human resource for the counties is unfortunate. All they can think of is getting a human resource person to chair the county public service board. What they need is professionals in that team and a chairman or chairperson who has a broader vision of looking at what the county needs and where to get the right people to put in positions. They should not make it look like a HR function of the county, hence remove professionals and bring a HR person as if it is a department. This is the CEO level and I wish they are talking about the chief officer of HR being a member of the Institute of Human Resource Management (IHRM), but not trying to bring this at the board level. I may go on talking about this because I believe in professionalism. I was the Chair of Institute of Certified Public Accountants (ICPAK). When I think about it, my staff keep telling me not to talk about those years. I have been a member of the accounting board as a registered professional for the last 34 years. I was Chair of ICPAK from 1999 to 2001. I have been a member of the Certified Public Secretaries (CPS) profession. I know the Bill we passed yesterday, the Kenya National Library Service Bill, which is on its way to becoming an Act, made a requirement that the secretary to the Kenya National Library must be a member of CPS. Every Bill we pass here has a standard requirement. Why are we starting to doubt our own wisdom by creating this law and talk of ploughing back the gains we have made on professionalism of public bodies. I want to urge Members not to spend a lot of time on this. For the record, we need to put in our comments, but I wish we show the Senate that we are the real protectors of devolution. We are the ones who appropriate the money and want it to be taken care of on the ground by professionals at all levels in county governments. Hon. Speaker, with those words and regrets, I beg to oppose the Bill."
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