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"content": "I was very impressed when I read the County Governments Act and realized that the requirements of the village administrator is that he or she must have competence in management and administration; the same applies to the ward administrator and the sub- county administrator. I think that this was a fantastic thing in our Constitution or Act, because we realize that at that very grassroots level of governance, knowledge and science is important. Therefore, that government is going to be able to deliver and extract services from people, just as the national Government is doing. Now, this kind of thing is, definitely, a seed for what I call a leap into the future in the development of our nation. If we are going to have these village, sub-county and ward administrators who are competent in management administration, they must be trained. They cannot be trained in the air, but in existing institutions that will impart knowledge to them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you do realize, therefore, that we are setting off to have jobs for very many trainers and experts. Experts are not just going to be needed at the Kenya School of Government (KSG) (formerly The Kenya Institute of Administration (KIA), but at the village level. Therefore, we must be prepared to create jobs for many students who have graduated from universities who do not have jobs and give them training, so that they can undertake training of trainers at the village level. Very soon, we shall be asking the county government training institute to tell us how many villages we have in this country, because there must be data or statistics of how many village administrators and elders that we are going to have in this nation and, therefore, what kind of government structure is going to exist at that level, that is going to be cost efficient and effective. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think that Sen. Wako’s Motion is very important because it hits at the very heart of what we are just about to do, that is, set up county governments, according to the County Government Act, which is effective and realistic. Therefore, let us forget the old Provincial administration; let us not revive it in any way whatsoever. This is because if we do, we are going to be carrying out an albatross around our neck, which has proved historically to be out of date now. We have invented something in our devolution which is new, challenging and going to be a big job creator. So, let us not live in the past and be conservative, by conserving this outdated Provincial Administration system, just because we are afraid to leap into the future. Mr. Speaker, Sir, finally, just to set my dear friend, Sen. Amos Wako at ease, let him not be afraid of having many training institutions in the 47 counties. They neither need to cost a lot of money nor to be new things. They only need to be established institutions in existing universities, specializing in providing this kind of service or training. It will also help the growth of such universities, so that universities too realize that they must be connected to the local environment in which they are. In 2003, I was very shocked when I was talking to the Vice-Chancellor of Maseno University then and he told me: “I am very surprised that we have a university in the Lake Basin, which does not have a faculty of fisheries and marine engineering.” I tried at that point in time to discuss with the Minister for Education, but even up to now, although that has not been done, I think that it is very important for these universities to establish faculties and training programmes that relate directly to the environment in which they are serving. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to second."
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