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    "id": 1086393,
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    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Gitonga",
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": "the letter and you must observe the principles of gender equity, ethnic diversities and others. This includes marginalised communities and persons with disabilities. I always argue for this because I know that my constituents are a marginalised lot. Having said so, I will go to the second proposal which is to introduce the qualifications of the chairperson. This is very important because we passed the County Attorney Bill in this House which became an Act of Parliament. We had to set up the County Attorney equivalent to the country’s Attorney-General. The first qualification is that you have to be an advocate with outstanding years of experience. When you come to human resource matters, the best persons who can handle this profession are the human resource management professionals. Happily, we have an Act of Parliament equivalent to the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) Act, the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Act and other professional Acts. This will enable the counties to run smoothly and observe professionalism which has been lacking. I am not ashamed to say so because we know that some governors have done atrocities against the citizens in the name of employment and dismissal. They just want to get their own cronies, relatives and greatest supporters into the county government at the expense of meritocracy. Therefore, it is important that the chairperson comes from the human resource management profession. Let him be a qualified member of that body so that we are all happy. When we take him to court when he contravenes the labour laws, we will ask him: “As a professional, why did you do this? Did you give thought to this? Did you consider this?” Otherwise, if you employ a person who is not qualified, his answer will be: “I do not know.” You cannot punish him on a mere technicality that lack of knowledge of law is no defence. Unfortunately, sometimes you may not have the opportunity to know. In view of this, we are suggesting that he or she should have 10 years’ experience. Ten years is relatively not much, but we can consider it, as Parliament, if we feel that we are trying to disfranchise some of our youths from getting such jobs. For the county attorney, we went down to five years. We may think of any other number, but let us have a qualified person at the helm of the county public service board. The chairperson is one of them as well as the secretary. Let us have counties beginning to gain a resemblance of professionalism when they discharge their duties. With those many remarks, I support this Bill."
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