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    "id": 1375975,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Embakasi Central, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mejjadonk Gathiru",
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    "content": "Therefore, it is imperative to set the law’s prescription to streamline appointments in the public service to ensure sustainability in service delivery and competence growth. The Auditor-General, through a draft report on human resource management and planning in the Judicial Service, says that, there is evidence of officers acting in appointments for more than seven years, and drawing an acting allowance for approximately 74 months. The Auditor- General notes that a huge component of the budget is on acting allowances which ordinarily could not be the case if the law was firmed up to reduce such operational bottlenecks in the service. That, the Public Service as enshrined in the Constitution forms the fulcrum for service delivery in the two-tier governments, therefore, a critical discernment of legislation governing the service is important, considering the dynamism in technology and innovation in skills and competences required to deliver services. Section 34 of the Public Service Commission Act, 2017 provides for acting appointments where acting appointment shall be made by the lawful authority subject to the prescribed regulations and procedures which apply to appointments. Hence, there is need to regularise the period for appointment on acting capacity and provide for punishment for non- adherence to such provisions. It is, therefore, against this backdrop that the Public Service Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and the Report of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security are before this honourable House for consideration and adoption. Therefore, in light of the foregoing, the Bill serves to achieve the follows: 1. Provide for the compulsory retirement age of sixty years in the Act; 2. To provide for the penal provisions in case a public organisation allows a person or an officer to act for a period exceeding six months; and, 3. To provide for the compulsory retirement upon attainment of the mandatory retirement age of sixty years without exceptions as provided in Section 80(2) of the Public Service Commission Act, 2017."
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