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    "id": 711706,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to reply. Just as my colleagues have said, this is a very good Bill and it will go a long way to modernise the Civil Service in general. One important issue is about the transfers. Currently, transfers are done by the Ministry and they just inform the public service after they get the transfers. One thing that has been abnormal because I have worked in the Civil Service for more than 29 years is that some civil servants are transferred to areas on disciplinary grounds without regard to the period that somebody stays in a hardship area. For example, the policies state that one should stay in one area for not more than three years. But because of lack of regulation or the PSC not being involved in these transfers, some civil servants stay for about seven years in one area. They then register low production. When you are taken to an area, you will face challenges and work well. But there are no challenges when you overstay in a place. This is because you become a local person. The other issue is that of the DPP. It is easy to remove him now. That makes him fear to face challenges of that office. A petition can be done to the PSC which will make recommendations to the President who will form a tribunal and he will go away. It is necessary to look into the manner in which the DPP is removed from office. On secondment to other organisations such as county governments, a number of civil servants since devolution came have been seconded to the counties. Some of them get frustrated when they go there because there is no proper legislation on how they are seconded. A number of them have cases from national Government when they go to counties. They get frustrated because they feel like foreigners in a county and seek for ways to go back to where they were before. 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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