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    "id": 390205,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ong’era",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Janet Ongera",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity so that I can support this Motion. This is a very good Motion brought by the leader of delegation from Busia. This Motion wants to build capacities in the counties. There is no way we can have good infrastructure even if we have resources, unless the men and women who are going to implement those services are well trained and have appropriate skills that can enable them do their jobs right. Therefore, we need to support the notion that is being proposed here that we should have the necessary training colleges in every county to the level of the Kenya Institute of Management that can train our civil service. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as you are aware, we have had quite a number of issues in the counties where many members of staff have been striking. They are striking because some governors are alleging that they are bloated and, therefore, should be fired. This is a notion that I do not support. These are all Kenyans and cannot just be thrown away like that. There has to be away in which our civil service can be maintained in the counties. This can be done by way of having a proper job evaluation and a necessary skills audit. This is the only way we can know a number of staff required in the counties. We cannot just wake one morning and say that we have over 12,000 workers and we need to send them away. In these hard times when the cost of living has doubled, we cannot take such a drastic measure. We all know in the last two weeks, we were buying milk at Kshs45. Today, it is being sold at Kshs65. So, where do we expect these staff to go? Therefore, we need to ensure that we have proper training colleges that can give the necessary skills to our civil service. If I were the Senator for Busia, I would add that we need to have appropriate technologies and polytechnics of the level equivalent to the Kenya Polytechnic in every county. This is because we want our youths trained so that they benefit from this new dispensation."
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