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    "id": 571042,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Obure",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 118,
        "legal_name": "Christopher Mogere Obure",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I stand to support this Bill. The object of this Bill is essentially to establish a legal framework for county assembly services boards. This is a framework which will enable them to operate in a formal, structured manner. The current county assemblies’ service boards are not anchored in any law. They have no code of conduct, are not professional at all in the manner they have been appointed and are not being guided by any principles, values or regulations. There are no set guidelines. Therefore, the boards are informal, pedestrian and operate the jua kali way. This is absolutely not good enough and I agree with Sen. Mutula Junior that this long overdue. It should have been one of the first Bills we passed in this Senate because we wanted to assist our counties operate in a structured manner. Madam Temporary Speaker, I will very briefly narrate the story of my own county; that is Kisii County. Right now, we are in a crisis of sorts because about 10 months ago, the County Assembly Service Board (CASB) attempted to recruit staff for the County Assembly of Kisii. The CASB was not guided by any regulation or law. There were no standard procedures to be followed in the recruitment of staff in all counties. Therefore, in Kisii County, everybody tried to employ their own relatives and friends. They had gone out to employ 71 members of staff, but they ended up employing more than 400 members of staff. Each of them was issued with a letter of employment. You can imagine what that means when the County Assembly of Kisii which is not supposed to have more than 118 members of staff in their establishment now has in excess of 400 members of staff. Some of them have been given grades which are far beyond requirement. They have the letters. However, the county assembly does not have the capacity to employ them. All these chaos could have been avoided if we had this law in place. It would have provided for a formal system through which such employees would be employed. Unfortunately it did not exist. Therefore, we are in chaos. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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