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    "id": 17741,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maj. Sugow",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Public Service",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Ahmed Sugow",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, on 10th October, 2011, Mr. Olago asked for a Ministerial Statement on the matter of employees whose services were terminated by the Ministry of Education from August 2011. Specifically, the hon. Member wanted to know why the Public Service Commission is perpetuating impunity by failing to comply with the order of the Industrial Court; why the PSC backdated the termination of the services of the staff involved disregarding the period they had worked; and, why the PSC has failed to recognize the interest of the Union and the Ministry of Education to isolate issues pertaining to those who were irregularly engaged and to stop further irregular engagement of staff to replace the ones whose services were terminated. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the issue of recruitment of lower cadre staff in the Ministry of Education has been long and complicated. The information I have specifically regarding the court order is that whereas it was issued on the 29th of August, 2011 and served accordingly, by that time the PSC had already made its decision which had been conveyed to the Ministry of Education on 16th March, 2011. The termination was to take effect from 1st May, 2011. However, the Ministry of Education took time before implementing the decision to terminate the 837 irregularly recruited candidates. The 837 are those who did not turn up for the mandatory screening exercise which was conducted when the issue came to the fore and failed various screening requirements such as; lack of required qualifications; being in possession of fake certificates; failure to go for interview and failing the recruitment interview, but were nevertheless appointed. The Public Service Commission has maintained that it did not backdate it decision. It, therefore, did not expect these persons to be in the service after 30th April, 2011. That is why its position is that the court order came too late. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the PSC has not disregarded the interests of the Ministry of Education in that it rescinded its earlier decision to cancel the appointment of all the 2,588 persons and allowed a screening process. It is out of this process that a total of 2,073 candidates were allowed to remain in the service. This accounts for 80 per cent of the applicants. The Government wishes to assure the House and the public that the screening exercise was undertaken with due care and it has ensured that as far as practicable, the eligible candidates got a fair chance to join the Civil Service. The House also needs to note that those terminated and are now demonstrating against the Government’s decision are among those who came in irregularly or had outright fake certificates. Those persons will be unsuitable for public service under the new constitutional dispensation where the issue of integrity is paramount. I also wish to confirm that discussions will continue between my Ministry, the Ministry of Education and the Public Service Commission to ensure that no eligible Kenyan unjustly loses his or her chance for employment in this exercise. Consideration will also be given to ensure that those whose services have been terminated are paid for the services rendered."
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