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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungantana, MGH",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is what this amendment is seeking to make happen; that even if you are employed in the Public Service Commission (PSC) - and Kenyans who have passed this Constitution are listening and have seen this happen want these mistakes corrected. It cannot be that in a parastatal, State corporation or department, you cannot find a Pokomo, an Orma, a Kipsigis or even one person from the Watta Community or other communities, and yet, you have one dominant community; so dominant in that department that they speak their mother tongue. This amendment Bill is saying that going forward, we need to file all returns. This Bill is very specific because if the Senate approves this Bill, which the National Assembly has already approved, the requirement in that the new clause says that there will be details on the human resource establishment within the service commission, outlining the total number of employees and highlighting their gender, age, ethnicity and whether they are persons with disabilities. These amendments to the Public Service (Values and Principles) (Amendment) Bill, 2022 must be supported by this Senate. It is so fundamental. I have addressed myself to what has been happening at the national level. The levels of accountability are not just for national departments, State corporations and parastatal. They also apply to the county governments. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, our county governments have ignored the principles of ethnic balancing. You will find a governor who comes in brings in a majority from the community that supported him. That governor completes his term or is voted out, and the next governor who comes in does everything possible to reduce the numbers of the previous governor. He brings in other employees in order to create a majority of his own community that supported him during elections. This must come to an end. We are asking, as Senators, that governors should rationalize their public service. There are County Public Service Boards (CPSBs) that have been set up in all 47 counties, but governors have gone there to intimidate members of those boards in order to impose their will on these people. I wish that those people serving in CPSBs can be given security of tenure, so that governors are not able to interfere with the processes that are there. We have seen people in counties like Tana River making public demonstrations against the CPSB. This is because they are not giving young people access to employment opportunities. In Tana River County, we have seen the CPSB advertising positions. They say that there are vacant positions and they are supposed to be filled. Young people go to cyber cafes, download documents and send them to the relevant links. Some of them take their papers in person and the CPSB keeps quiet, and people do not know what is going on. Have those vacancies been filled? Have they been left empty? Nobody knows what is happening. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the next thing you hear is that people have been employed. There is no transparency in what is happening. Just like these provisions of balancing ethnicity and communities apply at the national level, they must apply at the county level. Governors must be fair to everyone. All these are our children. Every person within the community is our child. 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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