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"content": "its own. Therefore, just like law, you cannot assume just by occupying an office that you will know what to do. That is why some people are called certified secretaries, not because they are secretaries but because they have acquired special knowledge of running administrative units, how to manage human resources, keep accounts, how to report on results or performance of their institutions and so on. If, indeed, we will have competencies as this Motion says, we must understand that such competencies are cultivated through training. Such training must build, over time, a tradition of culture and a granary of knowledge which is passed through from one generation to another. The second issue that is important is that as we engage ourselves in administration, we grow stale because we assume that what we knew yesterday is still relevant to what we do today. That is why people are called conservatives; because they are trying to conserve what already exists and they cannot go further because their knowledge has not been prepared to go further; hence the practice of having in-service training programmes for people who are already working in positions is important. Doctors are also asked to go for continuous education so that their licenses are renewed from time to time. They cannot assume that since they are doctors, they will know what to do and yet new methods of diagnosing diseases are coming up. The science of medicine is changing every day. New drugs are being discovered and, therefore, doctors must go for continuous education to perform their responsibilities as competent doctors. The same is true for administrators. You cannot assume that the problems of management or administration or the way of promoting people must be done the way you used to do it ten or twenty years ago. Things change. As it were today, we have labour saving devices called computers. The whole idea of technology is that it was discovered so that human beings could do things much faster using machines. However, machines, as it were, embody knowledge on inanimate matter. The machines are constituted as a result of a long term research so that they behave in a certain way. That is why computers are very efficient in calculations or in processing data. That data is not processed just because of a computer, but human minds have applied themselves to put certain instruments together, to make that particular machine do work faster and more efficiently. So, if you are in an office without knowing that such things exist and how they work, you will be using your manual labour rather inefficiently in an era where labour saving devices have made work easier and more efficient for you and society. So, people need to go back to such training institutions, so that through in-service training, they can learn new things and be more efficient in what they do. This is particularly important to county governments. Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me now come to my last point. Maybe 20 or 30 years from today, Kenyans will realize that devolution was, perhaps, one of the best things that happened in this nation in our road towards realizing Vision 2030. This is because for the first time, we are really putting in place structures of Government. The Government, as we have known, is one of the biggest consumers of services. So far, these services have been consumed and concentrated at the national level, depriving the taxpayer or ordinary mwananchi of the benefits of this thing called Government to consume services and, therefore, affect the lives of the people. Once you have a government at the village level, in terms of the village administrators’ council of elders, you do realize that a lot is going to happen."
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