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    "content": "to manage people in our counties as an important and rare resource, we need a CPSB that understands the science and art of human resource management. Madam Temporary Speaker, the CPSB - if I was to use an analogy - is the human resource department of all counties. We have an interesting situation in the County Governments Act where there is a CPSB and a County Secretary who is the head of CASB, yet we have CPSB which ideally needs to have autonomy, space and mandate to manage human resources. This Bill attempts to introduce a qualification for the chair of the CPSB. The existing qualification is that the chair must have a degree from a recognized university in addition to 10 years working experience. Madam Temporary Speaker, what Sen. Cheruiyot has incorporated is that the Chair must also be a human resource professional of good standing with the Institute of Human Resource Management. Parliament made human resource management one of the regulated professions, just like Law, Medicine and Procurement. It is important that whoever will manage people in the counties must be someone who understands that science. I, therefore, support that. It does not mean that it must be a degree in Human Resource Management. One can be an engineer and become a member of the Institute of Human Resource Management through certification or study. Therefore, let the message not go out that Sen. Cheruiyot is only saying that the Human Resource graduates are the only ones that can chair County Public Service Boards (CPSB). Even a doctor, who decides to be a member of the Institute of Human Resource Management---"
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