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    "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 am in doubt whether my good friend, Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki has understood the concept. He is talking about deployment. Sending them home means recruiting new people. If one is recruiting new ward administrators, it is not as good as deploying them. That is my understanding. They can be deployed. How can one redeploy all ward administrators? There is no logic. I appreciate the lack of proper schemes of service and a mismatch of grades. In terms of salaries, there could be people who have been employed without the requisite educational qualifications in one instance or the other. That, however, does not warrant the total sending away of ward administrators. We can demand an audit to ensure the county executive takes stock of how many of these ward or sub-county administrators lack the requisite skills, expertise and necessary qualifications to stay in these positions. For those important reasons, I do not agree with that bit of the Bill. I have heard colleagues complaining about some ward and county administrators who are used by governors to run errands and prepare rallies for them with a view to blocking Senators or disrupting rallies. I would propose that we establish a code of conduct. What manages the Civil Service is the establishment of a code of conduct that helps maintain morality, ethics and all that a civil servant is expected to have. We have many possible options that we can use to curb excesses of people at any level of the civil structure. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support the bit of the Bill that talks about qualifications for sub-county administrators, that pegs it at a university degree level and a diploma level for the ward administrators. However, I do not support the bit that seeks to render jobless thousands of employees of county governments. The unemployment rate in this country is high and devolution was a Godsend. It has helped to employ thousands, but the drivers of those seats at the county level – the governors - who many at times have decided not to listen are to blame for the number of the messes in our counties. I will stop at this and hope that we will have the necessary amendments. I support that small bit, but oppose the other one."
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