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    "content": "Similarly, officers working in the parastatals must know that as public officers, they must keep these values and make sure that they understand what is written. Clause 10(1) states that:- “The public service, a public institutions and authorized officers shall ensure that public officers are appointed and promoted on the basis of fair competition and merit”. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Surprisingly, some appointees in some parastatals and more so in the counties - because we serve to protect the interest - appoint themselves in mysterious ways. You find a very senior person and some junior officers sitting in a very big position. They are in Job Group “Q,” “R,” and “S”. In the national Government, originally central Government, you would have to work for 20 or 30 years to get to those positions. Right now, some young officers are jumping from graduation square directly to land in those positions. Other officers stagnate in their job groups for many years. When it comes to execution of duties, the person with a huge salary and a big job group now goes to bow before the junior one who knows everything. This is what I find absurd. I told my governor in my county that we must make sure that these things are properly re-aligned. We should make sure that a junior person who has not even graduated is properly appointed and vetted before they are employed. We have some people from other tribes who are living in other counties, I want to expect that in the counties of Nyeri, Kiambu, Kisumu or Siaya, we should have someone from West Pokot and vise versa. If we continue doing what we are doing, ethnic groups are going to be contained in their corners where God put them and they happen to become members of that community. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, part 3 regarding public participation, complaints, register and reporting: It is a must that any officer that gives services must use all available resources and opportunities to reach as many people as possible. Residents’ associations, self help groups and welfare associations must be used. There is no other better document that this now, especially when we are anchoring devolution. It will be very painful when this is implemented. We hope some things that have been done incorrectly are now going to be rectified after the passage of this Bill. It is important that some of these Bills should have been brought earlier so that as we go into devolution, we should not be playing around the way things are today. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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