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    "id": 1379677,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Koyi",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute to the Public Service Commission (Amendment) Bill. People in the civil service in acting positions suffer. Someone can act in a position for many years without being confirmed and some attain retirement age while in acting capacities. I want to thank the Hon. Member who sponsored the Bill. We should support and pass it. Once we pass it, the Committee on Implementation should immediately act on it so that people in the civil service know their positions. Madam Speaker, you have been in this House for some time now and I can cite the NG- CDF Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr. Yusuf Mbuno as an example of a person who served in an acting capacity for six years. As Members of Parliament, we wondered why somebody had to serve in an acting position as a CEO for such a long time. I want to thank the Member of Parliament from Embakasi who thought it wise to bring this Bill to the Floor of this House for debate. Members here come from communities. It is our people who brought us to Parliament and they are suffering, especially teachers. A teacher can stay in an acting position for 10-15 years while teaching. There was a teacher in my constituency who was employed when he had only 15 years remaining before retiring. This is a good Bill that we should pass so that it can help many people. There are people who are not prepared properly that they will retire when they are 60 years old. When you are 59 or 60 years old, you prepare yourself and mind that you will retire and pave way for the young people. This is compulsory. When all civil servants turn 60 years old, they retire. There are Kenyans who have forged their ages. Some are 70 years old but their identification cards say they are 50 or 55 years old because they lied."
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