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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Clause 7 (2) talks about public services that are not prompt; where there is unreasonable delay. These are the key words “unreasonable delay.” It is so common in public offices whereby you find long queues. Somebody queues for a long time. If you try to compare some of our offices with other democracies--- I want to give an example of immigration department at international airports. When you go to other democracies like the United States of America, once you alight and go to the immigration department at the airport, at first, you are shocked. You will ask yourself how long you are going to take to be served. You find hundreds and hundreds of people queuing, but the time it takes for those people to be served is less than the time taken in our international airport, where you just queue in a line of 50 people and you wait until you start thinking otherwise. Therefore, that is an unnecessary and unreasonable delay that should not be experienced in public offices. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to appreciate Clause 10 which is the main clause. I want to invite hon. Members to look at it. It is the main clause in this Bill. This is the Bill that is going to cure what we are seeing now at the PSC; both at the county and the national level. First of all, it has introduced affirmative action. If you look at Clause 10, Sub-clause 2, especially (b), (c) and (d); (b) is about gender balance; (c) is about giving affirmative action to an ethnic group that has been disproportionately represented there before. So, you can take affirmative action even if they do not meet a certain criteria, but in order to bring that constituency of the Kenyan public on board or into the Public Service, that clause has been put there. Sub-clause (d) also considers disabilities. I think what I should really do when it comes to the Committee of the whole House is to include the youth because they are very minimally represented in the Public Service. That is because of unfriendly qualifications that are put there and mostly, they say that one must be of a certain age to take a certain job. The worst of them is that one must have a certain number of years of experience in order to get those jobs. If you advertise a job and say that somebody must have a degree, that is okay. But when you have a fresh graduate from the university or from college, but you require that person to have ten years of experience, then how can you get experience before working? Therefore, I would kindly request hon. Kamama, the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security to look into this."
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