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    "id": 674076,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Abdirahman",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 161,
        "legal_name": "Abdirahman Ali Hassan",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to add my voice to the debate on this Bill sponsored by Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo. Indeed, it is a great effort to prepare a Bill. However, when there are certain issues which may not really serve the people, in the near future, it is good to take precautions. We should look at exactly what may not be useful. A number of my colleagues have canvassed with a view to reject it. I belong to the category who may want to reject it, not in its entirety but certain aspects that may not be right. Indeed, Sub-County Administrators are the equivalent of either the DCs and DOs in the national Government structure. Sending them home after every five years will impact negatively on the county civil service structure. Governors may not be very good people. They have a very bad approach in terms of running affairs of county governments. They do not consult on priorities in terms of development and a number of them have assumed that the executive at the county level is more or less like some place they manage like their own. In the operations of the national Government, now and in the past, it is only the Ministers, Assistant Ministers and the Permanent Secretaries who go home after every five years. The reason is that the remaining number of civil servants have institutional memory and even for career progression. For example, if one is recruited today, within a minimum of five years, they are expected to grow to the next level in terms of job grades and professional expertise and experience. If people are recruited every five years, that is politicizing the civil service at the county level. It does not help."
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