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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shakeel",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have the honour of sitting on Departmental Committee on Local Authorities and we had a meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government and a group of interested participants from chartered institutes of planning, architecture, surveyors, city accountants and certified accountants et cetera. The meeting was very good. What the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government is saying, and we are very proud, is that this is basically a governance, implementation and management Bill which will interlink with devolution. What we are trying to present here is the basic infrastructure framework we have. The major point that I am very pleased about is the issue of professional management of boards which is lacking in all local authorities. I am very proud that today, we will be able to look for professional managers to head and be part and parcel of the management of a local authority. What is very clear, and I think some of the councillors are still not sure, is that there will be no councillors other than the county representatives. The councillors will not be automatically absorbed in any management board which will be vetted by the county public service. That is what I understand. I also understand that the local authorities staff need not worry that we will kick all of them out with the passage of this Bill. They will be given time to either be seconded or redeployed. In the immediate short-term, they will have a job. However, they will be subjected to a vetting process either by the management or the board to see whether they are qualified. The local authorities have been overstaffed and one of the first things that any management board would like to do is to see how the management board of that authority, be it Kisumu or Ahero, will get the appropriate number of staff for the services that they provide."
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