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    "id": 1086408,
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    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "That is what they like to be referred to. Therefore, they are cabinet secretaries. Then we have people called officers, who prefer to be permanent secretaries. Then we have directors, deputy directors going down and replicating the bureaucracy of the national Government, which they did not need. I would imagine the Senate would use its time better to help county governments to put up systems and structures that would make the systems work. However, in my opinion, the Senate should not be very partisan because I am almost certain this Bill must have come from an experience of a particular governor. I just do not know. The chairperson of a board should be recruited competitively as provided under Section 158(2). That means that of the five members of the board, or three members of the board, there is an opportunity to have all of them, if you wanted, to be professionals that have some experience in human resource management. It does not have to be the chairperson only. However, if you check the counterpart law at the national level, it provides, as far as the chairperson of the Public Service Commission is concerned, that, that person shall be a citizen of Kenya, must hold a degree from a university recognised in Kenya, and must have, at least, 15 years' experience in their respective profession. This means that this is a leadership role that a lawyer, an engineer, or anyone would be able to carry out. Where are these human resource management professionals, in the first place? If you advertise them today, where are county governments getting them from? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the job of the county service board chairperson, like Hon. Oundo said, is not the day to day management. If I was the one recommending on this Floor, I would have then required to remove the current requirement of the secretary. I would have 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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