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"content": "curriculum for the training must be agreed upon immediately. The Government can, as a start, encourage the universities in various regions to set up independent training institutes for county governments, which will now train according to the agreed standards. We cannot afford to wait. As somebody has said, sub-county, ward and village administrators are being hired. I do not know what their counterparts in the national Government, starting with the chiefs, sub-chiefs, deputy county commissioners, are going to do. But those ones are trained. The ones for the counties may not necessarily have been trained and, therefore, there will already be an imbalance as far as the delivery of services is concerned. There may be also a potential conflict. I hope that the Committee of Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o, which has been asked to look into this matter, will look at it very urgently, so that we can have a harmonized structure below the county government. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I agree entirely that appropriate technologies, polytechnics and so on need to be introduced. This is because most of the projects that are going to take place in the counties need those types of technicians. So, the Motion that we passed here sometimes ago, about each county having a proper polytechnic, was a step in the right direction. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Sen. Naisula reminded us of what was discussed yesterday, regarding strategic planning and a development plan for each county, with benchmarks and so on. Do you think that those can be achieved without the proper personnel working for the counties? It cannot be, hence, the urgency of this thing. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not want to go into too much detail. I just want to reiterate what Sen. Ndiema said. I was there when the district focus development plan was being done. I, as the Attorney General, went to Kabete to be trained on what this programme was all about. We were all trained at various times on that. Therefore, if that happened at that time, even more important should this happen now. This is because part of the problem is that even the people who are working at the national level, including the Principal Secretaries and so on, one is not very sure that they really understand this animal called devolution and the role of the county governments. I do not think that they have undergone the type of training that we underwent at that time when there was the district focus. That is why a crash programme of training is very much called for. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Committee on Implementation will be there and we shall push it. I am also quite sure that we shall push the Sessional Committee on Devolution. We are also going to push the Legal Committee to ensure that this particular Motion, which somebody has said is long overdue is implemented almost at once. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to reply."
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