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    "id": 54126,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mudavadi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 84,
        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to state that, first of all, the number of people being employed is 90, and not 100. The positions that are being filled have now been properly laid out in terms of what kind of personality or skill we are looking for. In the case of non-skilled personnel, we have also worked with the Council to be very specific. The 98 employees that I said were employed earlier on were laid off because at that time, the Council Clerk, Mr. Mbinda, waited until the Council was dissolved in the year 2002, just before the elections, and went on with irregular recruitment of employees, knowing very well that there was nobody to question him since all the Council members had relinquished their positions. He quickly hired the 98 staff members without Council resolutions and without showing the budgetary provisions. This was purely for reasons best known to him. Mr. Mbinda was subsequently removed from Kisumu Municipal Council and suspended when this anomaly was discovered. So, those former employees were there purely on the basis of an illegal recruitment exercise. That is why we had to rationalize the exercise and make sure that this time round, the proper procedure is followed, and that the Council has proper budgetary provisions to recruit, and do so in a manner that is meaningful to the Council, as opposed to just general employment as was done by the former Clerk to Council."
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