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    "id": 1086384,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego-Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Onunga Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to make a contribution on this Bill. In principle, I do not find anything wrong with the amendment. But the county public service board, ideally, is the engine of county governments. It is the body that hires and fires the resources that serve in the counties. The law governing how the county service board operates needs to be enhanced. I have heard people complaining that counties employ people from the same ethnic community. In my County of Siaya, you find that, maybe, 100 per cent of county staff are from that place. If you go to a county in North Eastern like Garissa or Mandera, probably, you find that staff working there are people from the same community. Even though the law says that appointments should meet ethnic diversity, that is not met in appointments. Therefore, according to me, we need to make further adjustments in the law, so that governors are forced by law to comply with some of the constitutional requirements. For instance, this law allows governors to appoint members of the board and once they are appointed, the names are forwarded to the county assembly for approval. However, it does not tell the governors how to appoint or who to appoint. If we look at the Public Service Commission, the President is told to constitute a panel. Members of the panel are given to him. The panellists nominate people to be appointed as commissioners. Even for this one, we need to tamper with this law to force governors to meet ethnic diversity and minority considerations. If we do not do that, there are counties where the governor employs all of his relatives. You will find that the chairman of the county public service board is the governor’s relative and members are the governor’s relatives. Therefore, the governor will hire people who come from his clan. When a governor employs people from his clan, corruption will begin because they agree and conspire and run down counties. In the Senate, there was a petition to remove a governor and the MCAs were claiming that the county was being run by the governor’s wife. How is that possible? It was possible because the team working with the governor are people from the governor’s clan. Therefore, the wife could order them around and tell them what to do. 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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