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    "content": "this office and the process therein, where a member gets to sit in this office, needs to be properly laid out. This will ensure that we have men and women who are competent to execute the mandate of this particular office. You will remember that we have passed Bills before where, for example, when you have the election of a new governor; a county secretary is the person who chairs the Assumption of Office Committee. Therefore, at one point in their career, these are members on whose hands all the affairs of the county will be placed. Therefore, it is extremely important that such men and women be taken through a competitive process and be properly brought into office. Under Clause 16, they have laid out a list of people who do not qualify to sit in the County Public Service Board. If we get a chance and the Senate Majority Leader, who is the Mover of this Bill, gets an opportunity to listen--- I still do not see the reason why he strongly feels that amongst the people not to be allowed to serve in this board are people who have been members of Parliament or county assemblies. Politicians are the most misunderstood people. They also need to make a livelihood when their terms end or when they are no longer in public offices. Therefore, to bar them from such job opportunities is unfair and discriminatory. I have seen this practically, because most of the young people we were with in the last Parliament and who did not make it back are in the streets, trying to fend for their families. One of the hardest things for politicians is to get a job after they have left political office. No one seems to trust them because everyone feels that they are disorganized and so on. Therefore, by limiting in this Bill, we are continuing with the discrimination that is already in existence without such a law. I do not agree with that part of the proposed legislation. I will share my thoughts with the Senate Majority Leader, and I hope he will reconsider this decision. I believe there are good reasons they thought about it. Section 68 of the principal Act provides the list of members to be considered to serve in the selection panel. While I have no particular problem with subsections (a), (b), and (c), I have a problem with (d), which speaks of one person nominated by the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE). It is my hope that we can add that the person that is to be nominated to serve be from the specific county. Otherwise, when we have organisations like the Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU), FKE and other professional bodies, we will end up having busy bodies in Nairobi who have no understanding of how some of the counties operate. This being a legal requirement, county governments write to the offices in Nairobi to nominate one particular person to serve in this panel. I feel that we should encourage organisations like FKE, COTU and all these other bodies to have representation in our counties. The spirit of devolution is to send as much service, offices and representation to our counties. Therefore, I feel that the person being nominated by the FKE be from the said county that is seeking the services of this particular person. I feel that Clause18 is extremely important. I agree with the drafters of this Bill that it is extremely important for our County Public Service Boards (CPSBs) to remain independent and not be under the direction or control of any other person or authority. Despite the fact that the governor appoints them and takes them through a recruitment 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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