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    "id": 15446,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this will be the first Government school that is being established within the region. Therefore, how we are going to approach it is going to be replicated within the East and Central Africa. So, we must do it extremely well. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other point I want to demonstrate to the Minister is how this legislation he has proposed seems to be completely county insensitive. The whole thing, the way I have read this Bill, keeps on talking about the national Government and the studies they want to undertake. The Minister seems to have not taken care of the requirements for training within the county governments that we shall be running in 2012. There seems to be the earlier thinking, in this Bill, that all training needs will be done here in Nairobi. The only time there is a bit of an attempt to look at the other side is when they say, “the Kenya School of Government will be able to operate branches in any part of the country.” However, that is not enough. I have said it many times and I will keep saying it; that this may be the last opportunity we may have as a nation. Many people who are seated here may not probably wish to come back to this House. They may wish to take up senior positions in the county or even the Senate. We must pass a law like we will never pass another law again. This means that everything that is county, since that is where our Government is heading, we must make sure is well provided for in these kinds of laws that we pass. I have in mind, for example, in the admission and the curriculum that will be developed we must put a legal requirement that will compel the Kenya School of Government to be taking into training a certain quota, maybe a percentage from the county government so that people will be trained. We are not going to be paying taxes to the Kenya School of Government equally then we have only certain areas accessing these places and leaving some of our counties behind. I really want the Minister to think with us and see what we can put in this. He will also be a victim after he leaves here and whoever will be running this Kenya School of Government will be subject to the direction of only the law that we will pass here. Therefore, we must create those quotas now and not tomorrow. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have in mind the Medical Training School (MTC). We have had numerous complaints particularly for some of us who come from the arid areas about lack of nurses in our areas. But there is no compelling law that will tell those people running that institution that they must take a certain number of people from Tana River County or a certain county. Therefore, we continue to be marginalized although we say we are Kenyans. Many of us are left out. Then what happens? We have people from the medical field who come to our county, take up jobs for two to three days and then run back to where they came from. We will not have this kind of thing repeated here. So, we must think together on how we are going to propose amendments at the Committee Stage to make this law functional for all of us."
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