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    "id": 161062,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/161062/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 451,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maj. Sugow",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Public Service",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 142,
        "legal_name": "Aden Ahmed Sugow",
        "slug": "aden-sugow"
    },
    "content": "The policies and legal statutes in place, namely, the Employment Act, 2007, the Public Service commission Act, Cap.185 among others, provide for equal opportunities to be accorded to all Kenyans during recruitment to any position in the Public Service. That is what is causing the current disparity because of the varying standards of education and development in the country. To correct this anomaly, the Government is at an advanced stage in preparing a district-based recruitment policy. In the new policy, the filling of vacant posts for lower cadre personnel in Job Groups \"A\" to \"F\", namely, drivers, messengers, cleaners, clerical officers, artisans, security warders, mortuary attendants and all those that have been indicated in the Motion, will be undertaken at the district level. This will ensure that there is regional balance and fair distribution in the recruitment of officers to the Civil Service at these levels. In addition, where candidates in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) do not have the set standards, the district-based recruitment policy will provide that they be recruited and taken through a tailor-made crush programme to enable them attain the required standards, but not just to leave it simply because we do not have somebody qualified in that area."
}