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    "id": 1270800,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "together the proposal that there must be an annual declaration as to who a public organisation’s members of staff are, what ethnic groups and what particular groups consist of the employee members in certain organisations, et cetera, is still a good thing. My dear golf captain has left. I wish he had used a little bit of caution. It was as if he was driving in a straight manner. We have said that it is not only in Luo Nyanza - it could be Mount Kenya region or any other region of this country - where 80 per cent or 90 per cent of employees in the county governments are the local ethnic communities. We have a problem even in Kisumu. For argument's sake, as my dear friend, Hon. Rindikiri said, even in Kisumu, where most names start with letter “O”, not everyone whose name starts with letter ‘O” is Luo. Neither do they come from the same place. However, in Kisumu, we have a majority of the county employees coming from one particular constituency, namely; Seme. Other people are thrown away without being considered. Once we are good, we would be able to make these sorts of judgements. The passage of this Amendment Bill will obligate the officers in charge to make sure that reports are prepared to show us who is working where. They will give us information. That way, they will be more transparent and accountable. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I chair the African Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption. Many of these values and ethics - transparency and governance issues - are there. As such, I am very pleased that this particular aspect of values, ethics and governance have now been translated downwards to the human resource element. Human resource is a critical element in any organisation. An organisation draws 90 per cent of its strength from its human resources. If human resources are well distributed and promoted based on merit rather than whether one has a disability or one is from a particular tribe… Nobody should rise without meritocracy. That is one issue that I do not see in here. I know for sure that in the Public Service Act, there is the issue of meritocracy. We need to re-establish, re-talk and re-stress that meritocracy will be a major element and the number one factor that will determine whether one will be promoted or not."
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