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    "id": 1507542,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairman, I want to support. Clause 12 gives the responsibility to the county public service board to appoint such number of technical officers to the office of the county director for co-operatives. The fallacy we find with many of our county governments and the county public service boards is that people resort to appointing people on the basis of whether they support the governors in the counties. We find many people being appointed to very important offices without having met the requisite qualifications. I support the Departmental Committee’s position that all the technical officers to be appointed by the county public service boards must have the relevant academic qualifications, competencies and experience in co-operative management and practice. One cannot supervise the running of co-operatives if they do not know how co-operatives should be managed. In order to improve the governance of our co-operatives across the board, whether it is in the dairy or coffee or tea sectors, it is important that those who are superintending over the governance of those co-operatives are people who have relevant skills and qualifications to avoid a situation where a county public service board goes to a village and, because a certain Mr Kimani Ichung’wah is a very good supporter of the governor or the local member of county assembly (MCA), despite being a Class 7 or Class 8 drop-out with no relevant skills and experience in that area, is appointed to sit in that board. We find many county public service boards appointing the hecklers in their towns and villages to very important positions. Therefore, what the Committee is doing is important. It is trying to ensure that they appoint people who have relevant skills and training in the particular sector. I support, Hon. Temporary Chairman."
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