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    "id": 1381448,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungantana, MGH",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me not go there. Article 232, which gives the values of the public service, is so clear. For the Kenyans who are listening to me, they can turn to Article 232. It gives the values and the principles of public service. In fact, the entire Chapter 13 of the Constitution discusses the values and what public service should be like. It says that these values apply not just to the National, but also to the county governments and all state corporations. It is so clear on what the Kenyan people were saying. Some of the values of the public service are high standards of professional ethics, efficient, effective and economic use of resources. It goes on to talk about involving people in policy making, transparency is provision of public information and fair competition and merit to be the basis of appointments and promotion, but subject to representation of Kenya’s diverse communities. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Kenyan people through the Constitution of Kenya 2010 said, yes, let us have merit and fair competition when we are employing people at the national Government, state corporations and at the county governments. However, the question of fair competition and merit as the basis of appointment and promotion must be representation of diverse communities in Kenya. Kenyans who are in Tana River County; the various communities there – Watta, Wailwana and other small ones all over there - the spread of Kenya’s communities is more superior in terms of looking at what will be the category of employment, as opposed to fair competition and merit. We must have affirmative action. Yes, there must be merit and fair competition, but in order for us to obey the Constitution, there must be representation of Kenya’s diverse communities in every State department. I live in this country and when Kenyans were passing this Constitution, they were well aware of what I am talking about. You will go to a State corporation or a parastatal and people will be speaking their mother tongue. A whole department will have people speaking in mother tongue. Mother tongue is the lingua franca of that department. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
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