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    "content": "end up being clever by half. They will be just like what we have been running away from. We need to define the manpower or womanpower needs for the counties. How do we tailor the curriculum so that it is a crash programme but effective? You may recall – I do not know whether it has changed now – that we normally take policemen to Kiganjo Police Training College for six months and some of them, within that crash programme, come out very consummate officers. Of course, there are bad ones as well whom even if you trained for three years will be bad. So the intensity of the training and the quality of the programme is what will determine the quality of the outcome of what we are training. We will not spend a lot of our public resources because most of the people admitted to these institutions will invariably be qualified as graduates or high school or Form Four with diploma certificates or university degrees so that when they go to this college, they will learn special skills of management and not to go there and start being told, for example, this is a key board on the computer, this is the mouse et cetera . People should go there armed with skills, knowing that they are going there to just sharpen a structure of knowledge that will make them add value to the counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, I also believe that if we want to have a cohesive nation, even with devolution, I think we need to have a structure. I remember when we were in Naivasha crafting the Constitution, we said that certain counties with close affinities can come closer and execute certain programmes and certain issues collectively. I would want in future to see a situation where Elgeyo-Marakwet County can second its staff to Lamu and Lamu can second its staff to Kajiado and vice-versa so that we have Kenyans knowing and experiencing what good practices in other areas are. With these rotational structures, once people are qualified, we then build a very cohesive country. We used to joke that when we have a child born in Thika, goes to primary school in Thika, goes to Mangu High School, joins Jomo Kenyatta University, gets a job at Del Monte and works there till he retires, he might not know that there are other Kenyans in other parts of the country. We need to give people opportunities to rotate around the country so that they can know, experience and have a feel of the rest of the country. I remember when I was first appointed as a magistrate and I was posted to Kithimani in Ukambani and I picked a small boy from my village to come and help me with house work, he was shocked to learn that there were people in this country who did not understand his language and yet he was an adult. These are the kind of things we must run away from by building a country where when you talk to somebody in Nyeri that Kajiado has these problems, he can feel what you are talking about. When you get somebody from Mandera and you are talking about the floods, they do not start feeling like you are talking from the moon because there, they go for a year before they get a few drops of rain, and that is all. So, we need to have all these things worked out properly. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to encourage the House that this is a very good Motion. It, in fact, correctly interprets the spirit of the Constitution, and it correctly focuses the Senate on our core functions of being custodians and protectors of counties. We are not here to keep custody and to protect counties that are mediocre. We want to keep custody and protect counties that have proper well grounded personnel to make the wheel turn. As the wheel turns, even those who are dragging their feet on devolution will"
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