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    "content": "(3) A village administrator shall coordinate, manage and supervise the general administrative functions in the village including- (a) pursuant to paragraph 14 of part 11 of the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution- (i) ensuring and coordinating the participation of the village unit in governance; and (ii) assisting the village unit to develop the administrative capacity for effective exercise of the functions and powers and participation in governance at the local level; and, (b) the exercise of any functions and powers delegated by the County Public Service Board under Section 86.” Madam Temporary Speaker, the late Sen. Otieno Kajwang,’ whose brother sits where he used sit, used to tell us:- “I welcome devolution because when it comes, power will be dispersed, spread, acquired at the local level; and some of that power will come to me, Sen. Otieno Kajwang.” He was emphasizing that a Kenyan at the village level should feel devolution. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is no unit of village administration under the devolved government; the villagers are still being controlled by the provincial administration. That is the only office you can go to when you have a problem at the local level. It means that devolution is not being felt at the village level. Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo has emphasised the fact that there should be village administration properly established under the Constitution and the County Governments Act. However, the village administrator should not be taken for granted. He should be someone qualified to administer a village. Madam Temporary Speaker, you will recall that I said earlier on when I was reading the Constitution that these two levels of government are distinct and interdependent and shall conduct their mutual relations on the basis of consultation and co-operation. If there is a village administrator who cannot consult with his or her counterparts in the national government in English and Kiswahili; and the written word, what kind of administrator are we talking about? Therefore, it is important that in appointing these administrators, they must have qualifications which are standard practices in public administration. At the national level, it is a Public Service Commission. The public service commission makes sure that all civil servants are properly qualified. If there are going to be two levels of governance in this Republic, the county government level cannot have practices that are inferior to the national government. It must have a public service board which is equivalent to the national public service commission with the same ethics, professional standards and the same level of performance that we can call interdependent with the other one. Madam Temporary Speaker, the introduction of this Bill by Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo - who is my Vice Chair in the Senate CPAIC - by bringing those standards that we have established in the Committee to the standards of running a county, is timely and apt. 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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