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    "content": "emolument services will have an impact of both tying staff in the counties where they are currently employed or cause mass migration of health personnel to other counties that are apparently well endowed. This may raise staff motivation issues. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am glad that Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo is looking and listening attentively because some of these counties do not have health staff or health professionals from their own counties. Sen. Billow should also pay attention to this because many medical staff in Mandera County are from other counties. We need to device a system which will make sure that when these emoluments are sent to the counties, they benefit people working in those counties. Some of them may not want to stay in Wajir, Pokot or Turkana because, maybe, they come from Murang’a, Meru or the upper part of the country. These are the facts because most nurses and other professionals come from these counties. We have decided to allay the concerns and fears of the Ministry. They said that they feared some of the staff may demand to be transferred to their own counties after the emoluments have been devolved. So, as a Committee, we sat and realised that to overcome this challenge, we needed to give those counties which do not have their own staff a blanket commitment that these staff stay there for at least five years. In those five years, the staff can decide whether they want to continue staying or not. Should they decide to leave and maybe leave enmass and, therefore, create deficiency of staff in those counties, then we should give them the five years to ensure that they develop capacity, train their staff to avoid the shortage after the expiry of the five years. With those comments, we adopted this petition and I am now laying it on the Table of the House. If there are any comments, the Standing Orders allow about 20 minutes of debate."
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