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"content": "harmonising promotion of staff, poor working conditions, non-remittance of statutory deductions, non-remittance on SACCO loans and union dues, yet they have been deducted on the pay slip and the lack of medical cover for staff. Mr. Speaker, Sir, other issues by the health workers include the illegal mass sacking and staff removal from the payroll in an exercise that the Governor himself bloated the wage bill by illegal and irregular employment. It should be noted that the Nandi County Public Service Board, under the patronage of Governor Sang, on 13th March, 2023 at Kaimosi Agricultural Training Centre conducted a verification exercise and headcount on staff whereby they verified the following from the staff: original and copies of national ID; appointment letters; pay slips and academic/professional certificates, including valid licenses. He issued them with letters in an event presided over by Governor Sang on 11th May 2023 after successful verification. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mr. Sang himself created the mess in the County Public Service Board (CPSB) by illegally and irregularly employing his cronies, siblings, political spin masters, campaign soloists, goons, radio callers and political masseurs whereby, they were all in the payroll and have been earning from the Nandi County coffers. The Governor now purports to deny that he knows nothing about it. As I speak, with the ongoing strike in Nandi County, nothing is moving. From medical services, no development projects in almost all county roads, no clean water, no bursary allocation and no drugs in all hospitals, including the Kapsabet County Referral Hospital. The mortuary in Kapsabet has not been functional for over a year now and Kapsabet Referral Hospital is also on its deathbed. No drugs in all hospitals, dispensaries and health care centres in Nandi County yet, the latest report of the Auditor-General shows there is massive spending on foreign travel by the county executive led by the Governor totaling over Kshs310 million in the Financial Year 2022/2023. This is very unfortunate. Despite having received over Kshs60 billion through the sharable revenue allocated to Nandi County in seven years among other sources such as own source revenue and conditional grants, Governor Sang should take personal responsibility for the mess in Nandi County and be held liable as a Chef County Executive Officer in charge of the county and stop subjecting innocent workers to torture and joblessness and causing lack of service delivery to the people of Nandi, including, but not limited to complete shutdown of medical services. I urge the Nandi County Assembly and MCAs to immediately table an impeachment motion on the governor on these glaring offences and violation of the Constitution and other laws, which I know we shall uphold at the Senate when that time comes. The move by the County Assembly to form an ad hoc committee on the investigation of the departmental operations by County Executive Committee Members (CECM) is a smokescreen and diversionary tactic to absolve the Governor, the people of Nandi, in an overwhelming support that continues to affect service delivery. In finality, if the MCAs do not impeach the Governor on these allegations, then the people of Nandi will start collecting signatures to remove him. 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 and AudioServices, Senate."
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