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    "id": 500781,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. G.W. Omondi",
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        "legal_name": "George Washinton Mallan Omondi",
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    "content": "been building the country. They are waiting for a judge who has not reported to work. In hospitals, patients go there and they wait for a doctor who has not turned up. There is no notice that the doctor will not turn up. This is ouright human resource wastage. So, by bringing Public Service workers to book, and setting up what is expected of them, we will be going a long way in making sure that we get value for the resources that the Government collects and deploys to promote growth in our country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Part I of this Bill, Clauses 5 to 8, tell us what is expected of a public servant. The wastage of assets within the Public Service offices is there and it is seen by everybody. You go to a police station and get a completely new vehicle, which was bought the other day. The vehicle is dented and nobody bothers about taking care of it, or repairing it or making sure that it does not remain in the state it is in. This Bill will go a long way in instilling a sense if responsibility into the minds of public servants. The Bill also talks about the need for professionals at all levels to adhere to their professional ethics. This is another thing that ails this economy. You find that somebody is trained as a technician, or an accountant, but he does not take seriously professionalism, ethics and code of conduct that he or she learnt during their training. He or she does not care because nobody is looking at them. This Bill will bring sanity to the running of our systems. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, all that I have said will affect our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In a study that was done in Ecuador, it was found out that all delays, mindset and lateness in going to work cost Ecuador between 2.5 per cent and 5 per cent of its GDP.I think if we were to do the same thing in our country, we would find out what the same behaviour is costing us; all the delays, all the lateness and all the I-do- not-care attitude---"
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