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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, as opposed to what was written earlier which said “have knowledge in administration and qualification”. Now, we have to specify the qualification. Why am I saying this? It is because these people are in charge of a sub- county and a sub-county is led by an MP. By law, an MP must have a degree and so on. So, why would you have an administrator who has no qualification? Their compatriots in the national Government structure are called district commissioners. Nowadays, they have another name called assistant county commissioners or sub-county commissioners. All of them have a degree. So, why would you bring a form four graduate who got mean grade D plus to sit there? This is derailing and making life not easy. We are now worsening the original Constitution which said an administrator to be a degree holder at the sub-county level. I propose to amend the Act by inserting the following new sub-section as well: “When a general election is held for a county government, the outgoing sub-county administrator shall remain in office until the next Sub-County Administrator is appointed”. Madam Temporary Speaker, Section 51 is also amended to accommodate the ward administrator who I suggest must have a diploma. The same thing repeats itself. We are amending Section 52 by allowing them to employ the village administrator who must have a minimum qualification of a Form Four certificate. This means that the village boss should know a lot of English. Lastly, this is what is indicated here now. In Section 35 which is the last one, the principal Act is amended my inserting the following new section immediately after this: “Any person serving as a sub-county, ward or village administrator before the commencement of this Act, shall continue to serve as such until a General Election is held for a county government.” This is to safeguard these people. They can even work until the new governor comes in two or three months later and so on. Until even their colleagues are employed, they can even go for six months or one more year. So, it does not really matter. What matters is that they are eligible for the same positions if they qualify and if they perform. Of course, performance is the first qualification. If they continue to perform very well, they may have favour from the new administration to remain. This will streamline and make sure efficient services are delivered and there are no people attached to one individual. Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, let me leave it at this point and ask my colleague, Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o, to second."
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