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    "content": "the National Assembly will not have a hand in picking those administrators because the process will not be politicized. By so doing, we will get the best administrators. Additionally, the hon. Senator has proposed that we should have some minimum educational qualifications for the administrators. For those at the constituency levels who are now the sub-county administrators, he pegged the qualifications at the degree level and for the ward administrators at the diploma level. Education is the backbone of development in every nation. We cannot talk about education and not talk about the minimum standards for employment. I congratulate the hon. Senator for this. The issue which is causing shockwaves among the administrators is whether they continue working after every five years when a new regime takes over. I urge the House to adopt a model whereby you employ competitively people who are qualified, effective and trained in their line. If we hire these administrators after every five years, it will be very expensive for this country. It is going to create what we have noticed in the national Government where the Cabinet Secretaries (CS) and Principal Secretaries (PS) were pegged on those who had been elected. If we do that, I can tell you for sure that we will still be talking about the animal called corruption which we have always talked about in this country. Why is it always that corruption at the highest level in the Ministries is always traced from maybe the cabinet level to the Principal Secretaries? It is because these people feel that after five years, they will go or maybe they are just working under the mercy of the person who appointed them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if we continue that way at the ward and the constituency level where the county government is also involved, we will also have problems and we are going to have compromised work at the ward and constituency level. Why do we currently have the problems we are having at the ward and constituency levels? We trace that on how the current ward administrators and sub- county administrators were employed. In some counties, there were no minimum standards in terms of education and because of that, these were people who were just pushed. Some were even campaigners of the governors or particular people in the county. For that reason, they are serving the interests of those people. I feel that is why the Senator found it logical that we must have minimum standards of education so that these people will not just come to serve those who appointed them. Currently, I know quite a number of them are being used like tools. I believe if this Bill goes through with amendments where we will not be sacking them after every five years and then we make sure their work is clearly defined, we will have sober and good administrators at the sub-county level who will do their work in a good way to make sure that services are appreciated down there. Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, I believe if we were to strengthen the ward and sub- county administrators through this Senate, the Senator and the Governor would be directly informed on what is happening at the ward level. That way, the work of oversight for the Senator would be boosted because he or she will know whether the funds have been well utilized. Currently, we are having a lot of problems in the counties at the ward level. The ward administrator is the person who is supposed to raise an alarm on whether a 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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