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    "id": 392043,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lesan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 506,
        "legal_name": "Wilfred Rottich Lesan",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support the Motion. The issue of employees of the defunct local authorities is just one of the many problems that the county government and the national Government are yet to resolve. There are also issues which involve fixed assets, especially properties and immovable assets of the counties that disappeared from the records of the counties during the transition period. This particularly happened in areas where the local authorities were serving several counties. It is during this transition time that these items were not accounted for. It is important for this audit to be done so that we have a record of these items. I, therefore, support that an audit on these items be done. I also suggest that we edit the laws that govern the process of the TA. I seek your guidance as to what is contained in our Constitution in the Sixth Schedule, Part 4(18). This is just one of them. I will read so that it assists me. It says: “All local authorities established under the Local Government Act (Cap.265) existing immediately before the effective date shall continue to exist subject to any law that might be enacted.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not aware of any law that has been enacted after this, but I stand to be guided. Therefore, this means that there is no law to guide on how to handle employees and properties that were in the local government. A law is required to guide handling of properties, including employees, particularly with the impending merger or amalgamation of parastatals. We will be faced with a lot of employees who will fall under the same category with those of the local governments. This means that we, as legislators, need to put in place laws that will guide this process after the audit has been done. There must be a law that the TA will use to handle the employees that they will find in the course of the audit they will conduct. I want to support this Motion. The national Government should look into the issue of employees who have been made redundant. A minor amendment requires that they be retired. I do not entirely agree with that because some of these employees are as young as 33 years old. I am not sure that you want to retire a 33 year old Kenyan who has a lot to offer to this country. I strongly support the fact that we should audit these employees, account for them and use a law to follow up on their situation. I beg to support."
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