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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. As the Member for Saku representing Marsabit County, this Bill is four years late. Counties are already up and running and yet, we do not have a sort of constitutional order to help them in recruiting staff. Article 175(a) of the Constitution states that:- “The county governments shall be based on democratic principles and separation of powers.” In the county where I come from, the assembly does nothing other than rubber-stamp appointments. I can see my brother, Hon. Chachu Ganya, is laughing. That is the reality across our Republic, not necessarily in Marsabit County. This is really sad. Second is on the issue of efficiency and practicability of how counties should function. There is the issue of a bloated work-force. From the beginning counties used the county assemblies to vet and oversee their staff employed. Sometimes, counties struggle to engage in serious development because most of the money is spent on recurrent expenditure. This Bill brings some orderliness on how staff is recruited and how individuals are employed. As far as counties are concerned, there must be some order which this Bill provides. The Senate should have gone further to state that for this country to be a unitary state, we need to put a cap on what percentage of staff in a county should be local and what should be countrywide. As it is today, our country is more divided. In most of our counties, we have sanitised employment to the locals and the tribes in a particular community. There must be a way of looking beyond the small counties of Isiolo, Marsabit or Mandera and bring in experts or people who are more qualified, who are not necessarily locals from that particular area, if those counties must make progress. I do not wish to poke a lot of holes in this Bill at this point in time. As we head to the Committee of the whole House Stage, we can suggest some of the amendments that the Senate should introduce to not only improve this Bill, but also to ensure the best individuals are employed by our counties across this country. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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