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"content": "fall vacant include; natural attrition through death which occurs continuously, dismissal from service once the procedures for dismissal are concluded, either by courts or through the Public Service Commission without dependency on appeal in any court within the country. These positions also continuously fall vacant due to the promotion of the office holder to a higher office, resignation and re-designation of the office holder on request. Based on all these reasons that cause vacancies for chiefs and assistant chiefs, accurate data cannot be retrieved on the vacancies within counties, except if, for example, we are asked for a particular county at a particular date, in which case we can freeze the date and give the information. Every day, we hire new chiefs, promote new chiefs and assistant chiefs, some are retiring, and others are being interviewed. That is why the first part of the question, unless it is time-bound and county-specific, is difficult to provide the data. Having said that, it is the policy decision of this administration that all vacancies for chiefs and assistant chiefs will be filled within this financial year. No office of a location chief or a sub-location assistant chief should remain vacant. In the future, we will make sure that as soon as a vacancy is declared, we initiate the recruitment process immediately and fill the positions immediately. Secondly, last year was an election year and that affected many of the processes. This is because ordinarily when you have elections, we pause some of these processes so that they are not interfered with by political processes. However, now that the election is behind us, we have decided that this financial year, all positions of chiefs and assistant chiefs countrywide are going to be filled, and those that will fall vacant will be filled immediately without any further delay. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the reason there has been some delay in quite several positions being filled is because of last year's general election, which interfered with the procedures and processes which should have taken place last year. We are going to correct that position this year. The process of filling the vacant positions is guided by the Scheme of Service for Chiefs and Assistant Chiefs and the Service Regulations. Once a unit falls vacant, the process of filling the same is commenced, and it includes the following steps- (a) the declaration of the vacant position; (b) advertisement of the vacant position; (c) interviewing of the applicants; (d) submission for appointments; and finally, (e) the appointment of the successful applicants. This year, we undertake to make sure that all the pending appointments - where vacancies exist - will be filled within the financial year. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I submit."
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