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    "id": 571357,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to second the amendment. The gist of that amendment has been made very clear by the previous speaker, Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo, who has put in the value of the names of the two Senators that he has proposed to be added to this Committee that is being put in place to make the necessary investigations. The two names he had put forward are Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo and Sen. Obure. He has indicated clearly that they already have a lot of experience and done preliminary work in looking at the needs of the various counties in terms of physical facilities needed, buildings and input needed Indeed, he has also spoken about data which is critical for this exercise that they already know about, drawings and names of various officers Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we always say that there is no need of reinventing the wheel. If this team is enhanced by having new Members who know more and who have done the work, then the work of this Select Committee is going to be enhanced. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo has also indicated money should be allocated for travel because it is also good to benchmark and see how other countries are going about it. It is really unfortunate because with devolution, it was expected that each of the county governments would have those structures in place. Human resources are always very critical but they do not operate in utopia, they operate within a specific space. We need a situation where we know the job for someone to do. The job is not going to be done from the trees or from open spaces; it will be done within a building. They need to have facilities so that they can do that. They need to be aware of what their job description is so that they can do the work properly. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I visit some of the counties, I find a lot of personnel who do not seem to have clear job specifications. You cannot locate them and where they sit. If you were to ask for them for performance because at the end of the day, we need to have a way to evaluate the input that somebody has put to their work, you cannot do that because we do not know where to trace them and the responsibility they have been given, where they are working from. If we do an audit in many of these counties, you might find that many of them do not have space to sit and do the work. In fact, it was my suggestion that it is critical at the Senate level that each Senator is allocated a place to sit and where people can meet them in close proximity of the work that is happening within the counties. It is unfortunate that the county boards that we advocated for in this Senate did not work. One of the most important things about those boards was that they were to get all the leaders within the counties together to map their development agenda for that particular county. They had to do it within a particular space. Then, they would have to identify their task, goal and objective in the counties and break it to sub-objectives and find a way of actualizing the facts within those particular counties. This did not happen. 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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