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    "content": "administration and management. This is not a small job. A sub-county administrator takes care of a constituency. If you want to be a ward administrator, you must have at least a diploma and some professional qualifications in administration and management. For village administrators, you must have at least a secondary school education plus some professional qualifications and knowledge in administration. You will not employ a cook in a good restaurant without some evidence that this person has gone through some basic training to undertake the job and function that you are employing him for. I think this is the same logic that Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo is bringing in here; that for you to hold these positions, there has to be some defined minimum academic requirements. To that extent, I support. We must now ask ourselves, in case there was a sub-county administrator who was employed without a degree, how do we deal with that particular person? We must then come up with progressive implementation proposals so that someone does not lose their job because they were appointed at that time without the degree. You cannot come up with a requirement today and try to apply it in retrospect. That will not work. So, it will be important for us to have a progressive implementation approach so that those who have already been recruited into this position without the requisite academic qualifications --- I think it is Sen. (Prof.) Lesan who must have mentioned the school of Government or some similar approach where these people can be taken, up scaled and given certificates or qualifications that are equivalent to the minimum requirements that are proposed in the Bill by Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo. I would have expected or requested – this can come up later – that we would have made a comment on these issues of the two-thirds gender rule, so that we ensure not more than two-thirds shall be of the same gender. In the appointments in our counties, we are seeing a situation where in a county with eight sub-counties, all the sub-county administrators are men. We are looking at a situation where the ward administrators in a county with forty wards, majority are men. We must be conscious of the constitutional requirement on gender. It needs to be put somewhere that no more than two-thirds shall be of the same gender. We assume that since it is in the Constitution, everyone shall follow it. However, Parliament is an example of an institution that has not fulfilled that requirement which has been expressly stated in the Constitution. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when it comes to further suggestions for improvement, I would like to discuss with the Mover and see whether it is necessary beyond any reasonable doubt, to include that or whether it has been captured elsewhere within the County Governments Act, which Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo seeks to amend. If you look at the role of these administrators as captured in the County Governments Act’s clauses 50, 51 and 52, this is where the problem lies. You have people who are idle but not by choice. It is because of the manner in which their roles have been defined in the County Governments Act. For example, one of the functions of a sub-county administrator is development of policies and plans. The question is: Which policy or plan and where does he take it to? Is it to the county assembly, senator, governor or county secretary and how often? If you look at the development plans and budgets which have just been approved by the respective county assemblies, you will realise that there is nowhere where sub-county or ward administrator is mentioned. Not even when it comes 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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