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    "id": 676697,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kasuti",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1884,
        "legal_name": "Suleiman Murunga Kasuti",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to add my voice to this Bill. I wish to state at the outset that whereas I appreciate what the Bill is set out for, apart from the county assemblies looking at the standards and employment of our new officers in the counties, they should also look at the bloated workforce in the counties. Some of the people who are serving in the county governments were employees of the former county councils. The assemblies tend to overlook them. They are not given any opportunities as such. So, apart from new employment being generated in the counties, the county governments should be giving opportunity to the people who were there before the formation of those governments. This Bill will streamline a lot of things that have not been going on properly in the county governments. Therefore, we should be giving a lot of emphasis to this Bill so that any employment in the county governments can be looked at properly to ensure that the officers being employed are officers who are above board and they can render proper services to the county governments. In my county government, most of the officers who have been employed are sidekicks of the governor. They tend to take instructions from the governor rather than give the services to members of the public as expected of them. The county government’s salaries and remuneration packages tend to be better than those of the employees of the national Government. Therefore, most people who are well qualified have gone to seek employment in the county governments rather than continue serving in the national government. A Bill of this nature will be able to streamline remuneration in both the national Government and the county government. That way, qualified people will be able to serve in either the national Government or the county governments without giving preferences to the county governments. Most of the things that I would have loved to talk about have been said by my colleagues. If I continue and try to give more facts on this Bill, I will just be repeating what has already been said. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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