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    "content": "(i) The reason for the inordinate delay in opening and posting of the officers in the sub-county. (ii) When the offices will be opened and the officers posted. Hon. Speaker, in response, the Cabinet Secretary concurs that the Ministry has not taken registration of births and deaths services to the majority of the newly created sub-counties, including Mandera Central District. The former Mandera District, which is now Mandera County, was split into six sub-counties, namely, Mandera East, Mandera West, Mandera Central, Mandera North, Banisa and Lafey. Members of the public seeking to obtain certificates of births and deaths from all those sub-counties are currently being served from Mandera East Sub-County Civil Registry at Mandera Town. This has been occasioned by the current under-staffing in the Department, whose current authorised establishment stands at 1,364 members of staff for all cadres against an in-post of 815, giving a shortage of about 549 members of staff. The breakdown for the in-post staff is as follows:- Civil Registrars - 225 Clerical Cadre - 415 Secretariat Cadre - 86 Other Support Services (Accounts, Procurement, Drivers, Human Resources) - 89 Hon. Speaker, due to an acute shortage of staff, the Civil Registration Department has managed to take its services to only 107 sub-counties out of the current total of 289 sub-counties in the country. While the existing personnel has been over-stretched, the current scenario has contributed to difficulties in accessing civil registration services, high cost of the services and low registration coverage for new births and deaths due to long distances covered to registration centres by both service seekers and registration assistants – that is assistant chiefs and medical personnel. In order to address the severe shortage of staff that has continued to constrain operationalisation of civil registry offices in the newly created sub-counties, the Ministry has taken the following measures:- (i) Engaging casual labour and borrowing of additional staff from National Government Ministries in the field stations to beef up staff strength at civil registration services as a short-term measure. (ii) As a long-term solution, the Ministry has sought and obtained authority for expansion of the staff establishment for civil registration from the Ministry of State for Public Service. Consultations on getting the required staff based on the new establishment over and above the in-post are on-going with the relevant Government agencies. In conclusion, the posting of civil registration officers to Mandera Sub-County will be considered together with the other remaining su b-counties when the issue of personnel is conclusively addressed. Nevertheless, the Ministry regrets the inconveniences being experienced by its customers from the sub-counties without civil registries, and it is working towards a speedy intervention. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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