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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "governor feels should be done, they have to comply with because maybe there were no stringent laws for this purpose yet at the same time they do it so that they can get favours from the governor. Once this law is put in place, it will be very clear and it will be easy for the committees to get the right candidates for particular jobs. When they are vetting, they will also do it according to the law. County governments are no different from the national Government, the Public Service Commission (PSC) or any other body which employs in this country. Therefore, once this one is entrenched into law, it will be easy to challenge some of those who were appointed through nepotism, for example. Some are qualified but there was no criterion to determine that. That notwithstanding, I strongly feel that we need to move some amendments. For example, those people who give false or misleading information need to be punished. Sometimes it becomes very difficult, as one of my colleagues has said, to qualify or to ascertain the level of false information. Maybe it can be done just to disqualify that candidate because if you give wrong information, then maybe you are not qualified and you are left out in the nomination. In the first schedule, the criterion of vetting is done and there is a nice questionnaire. This one should be strictly followed, vetted and looked at seriously. It should also be updated once in a while. There should be a term of office once these officers are in office. I strongly feel that if you have been employed in the right way and you are qualified for that public office, I do not see why you should be in the office for only five years and we recycle you. Political seats can be recycled after five years but if you are an employee, you need to be permanent and pensionable or you have some specific period of service and you should also have exit package. It should not be that you can be dismissed just like that so that we do not have people who will be out of office not because it was their will but because their boss or the person who put them there has left. Once they are employed, procedurally via this Bill, I strongly believe that they will be working independently. They will be working as officers in the offices and discharging their mandate without any coercion from maybe the governor who could be saying that he is the appointing officer. The appointing officer will be the county assembly which vetted that person and found that person to be qualified. Once they work independently, it would be even easy for them to deliver on their mandate properly. If you go to most counties today, you will find that most of the county executives do what the governors want and not what they want. At times you will find all of them following the governor to a meeting and when you go to the offices, there is nobody there because they all went for a particular meeting to drum up support for the governor and to campaign for him. I saw an incident where even some county executives were running out with stones chasing away Hon. Aburi Mpuru when he wanted to go to their meeting. They came out with stones and chased him away while shouting. It was very shameful. We need people to work professionally as per their mandate and not because they are sycophants of certain individuals. I support. Thank you."
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