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    "id": 501325,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Abongotum",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 165,
        "legal_name": "Asman Abongutum Kamama",
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    "content": "law to the letter. The enactment of this Bill will revolutionize performance of public officers in the public sector. When you look at Clause 4, it touches on all State officers and State organs, that is both national and county. This will necessitate that the Bill should go to Senate for endorsement so that it can be enacted. We need to make sure we have public servants who are efficient, effective and who know how to use public resources. As you all know, we have a lot of privileges and a lot of corruption in the Public Service. The hon. Member for Bomet County was saying that there was a time when officers used to hang their coats and disappear to go and do personal errands. This is not the time. We need serious officers. A lot of changes have come. We are talking of Rapid Results Initiative (RRI); we are talking of strategic plans coming up, total quality management coming up and so many paradigms have come in to revolutionize how we provide services to wananchi. Clause 7 of the Bill also provides that provision of public service to the public must be responsive, prompt, effective and impartial, which is very critical and respectful. Partiality is still common in this service. Sometimes servants and wananchi are not respected, especially in the disciplined forces. When you go to a station somebody tells you, wewe mzee sit down. Can you do this and that?” Wananchi should be served like kings and queens because they are the ones paying taxes so that public servants can get remuneration. I also want to inform public servants that when you go to some hotels, they have done so well. This is where clients are treated like kings and queens. When you go to a hotel, you are served by a waiter with a lot of respect. After serving you, they observe you closely to know what you want so that you can be served promptly. Let them borrow a lot from the hotel industry. Servants need to be reminded that they are not the bosses. The boss is the one seated before you and that is the poor mwananch i who requires public services. Public officers should be accountable for their administrative actions. As we all know, since Independence, officers make decisions that are not in line with the code of regulations and the law. This time around we need to see a lot of change in this area. Clause 10 says that officers need to be promoted on the basis of competition and merit. It further provides that appointments must be done in a transparent way. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we have a situation where some communities are not represented in certain sectors. You find a situation where the chairman, the managing director and the secretary are actually from one community. So, they can transact business in their mother tongue and translate the proceedings into English; that is how minutes are written. This practice must come to an abrupt end because we do not want promotion of ethnicity in the Public Service. We must be very careful. In Tana River County, we have some very small and endangered communities like Munyoyaya, Wata and Malakote. Elsewhere, we have the Boni, Ogiek and Sengwer communities. We must integrate all these small communities into our Public Service. Let them not feel that, because they are few, they do not matter. Of course, I have not forgotten the Elmolos of Loiyangalani. Gender parity is also critical. As our Chief Whip suggested, we need to provide for the youth. We are coming up with so many amendments at Committee Stage to ensure that this is taken into account. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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