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    "speaker_name": "Marakwet East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kangogo Bowen",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support Hon. Kamket, specifically on that policy that requires some specific academic qualification for chiefs and assistant chiefs. In many parts of this country, say, in the northern frontier all the way to Turkana, it is true that you may go to a sub-location and not find someone who has completed Form Four and yet that place requires an administrator. The reason there are too many insecurities and banditry in the pastoral community is that there are no administrators and the Government is far from the people. If we want to bring services closer to the people, the services are offered by a chief or an assistant chief. That policy needs to be reviewed so that we see how to consider even someone who finished Class Eight to do the job if no one in that location or sub-location has finished their Form Four. I ask my colleague, the Hon. Chairman, if he can, to go back to the Ministry and give us a very concrete answer. At the same time, regarding what Hon. Pukose has said, too many administrative units were gazetted: locations, sub-locations, and divisions. A recent example is in my place of the Kerio Valley Sub-County. They operationalised the sub-county and posted a Deputy County Commissioner yet they have not operationalised divisions and locations. We have a Deputy The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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