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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, as you noted and as we know, most of the offices that now exist unutilized by the county governments were originally for municipals, local authorities, cities and so on. There existed employees who are Kenyans and who were genuinely employed then. Madam Temporary Speaker, we note that there was a Minister in charge of Local Government at that time. Hence, these employees were working for the local authorities. All of them had employment personal numbers. Leaving them out the way some counties want to do it is not fair. Some counties want to employ clerks and other officers. These people were there previously before the new dispensation. This is something TA needs to address. The TA should move with speed and see to it that all data for all the employees that has ever existed is put correctly for all local authorities. There are several local authorities. We have the county councils and the town councils. We also had the urban councils, municipalities and cities. There were different categories of people there. For instance, where will the people who were taking care of parking spaces go if they are not absorbed? There is a notion that some of these employees are inept. We also hear that some of them are corrupt. Some are not experienced and trained. However, we utilized their ability to work for us faithfully and sincerely at some point. The Motion is now being amended to ask the county governments, after the TA has checked the available data, to absorb the people who were working there and retrain them. I have now noticed a new trend where barely two weeks go by before you hear that some county officials are in Kisumu. The latest destinations are Kisumu and Nakuru. We even met some in Rwanda when we were there a week ago. Some have been going to South Africa. The governors are entertaining, travelling abroad. That money can be used to train these personnel. The Constitution, under the Transition Act, states that these people must be retrained. Anybody who has a sober mind can be made to perform duties as long as they are trained. We should not dump those people because governors and county governments are politicians. We should not say that we do not know how these people were serving because these people reside in the counties and are Kenyans. Some had taken huge loans like mortgages. Some of them had taken ordinary loans. If we start removing them, we will be throwing people in more problems. These people should be absorbed. The national Government, noting that this was a national issue, should have provided for a segment of Government. They should be absorbed and taken to the relevant Ministries just like it has been proposed for officers who are working in parastatals. Some of them will be recalled to the national Government. The Jubilee Manifesto talks about job creation. They also talk about achieving Vision 2030 so that we have a good life. We are only 17 years to Vision 2030. We will not achieve that if we do not take care of these people. We will have created redundancy and more problems for people by sacking them. The manpower that is already aware of what should be happening only requires a clarion call for them to put their best foot forward. If you recall, in the late 1980s, there was a wave in Kenya for people to be retrenched. I was in university then. This was the order of the day. They wanted to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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