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    "speaker_name": "Emurua Dikirr, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Johana Kipyegon",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I can see my brother, Mhe. Wamboka, signalling me. I do not understand why but, maybe, it is because of time. I want to give some flesh to this Report. From the word go, I truly support this Report. It is a very important Report because it looks into several issues that are affecting the Public Service. It is not only the Public Service. I wish the Hon. Chair had looked at the Private Sector. This is because the rule of law in this country is not meant only to affect the public service. It affects even the private sector because when you look at employment in this country, the private sector employs almost 40 per cent of the employees. Therefore, Mhe. Chairman, in your next course of action, you should also look at how discrimination, the terms of employment, regional balancing, and all those things are done in the private and public sectors. This is because we are all under one Constitution, and we need to abide by it. We need to abide by the law. We need to re-look at how our people are being employed. So, I want to say that I support this Report because it looks into the details. We will still interrogate it. So, we need to come up with ways other than what the Constitution states and make sure that not only particular people in particular sectors are lined up for employment. This country needs everybody. Even if your tribe or community is small or not even recognised in the bigger positions, I think there should be a way to make it mandatory for every sector of employment - whether it is the Public Service Commission, county public service boards, or private sector - to look into exactly how they can involve everybody so that we do not have imbalances and injustices to some other communities, people, persons living with disabilities and also other areas. Hon. Temporary Speaker, that is my contribution. I wish we would look at it because this country has so many communities. Very small communities may not have representation in this House. They may also not have representation in senior positions like cabinet secretaries, principal secretaries, and chief executive officers (CEOs) of various parastatals. Those are 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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