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    "id": 814851,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me a chance to also add my voice on this important Bill that concerns the human resource of our counties. I congratulate my colleague, Sen. Cheruiyot, for having thought deeply about this important asset in our counties. Human resource, personnel or workforce is a very important asset to our counties. It is also the backbone of development in our counties. The reason many Kenya citizens supported devolution is because they wanted to decentralize development. We wanted development to go to every part of this country. We wanted development to be felt by everyone in this country. We also wanted our counties to run services that benefit everyone so that every part of this country can develop and help its own citizens through service delivery. Developing the capacity of our human resource is a very great idea. We cannot have personnel in our counties that are not professionals and who will not be able to deliver or perform to the expectations of our citizens. Therefore, this Bill seeks to give capacity to the CPSB, which is mandated to employ and recruit staff in the counties. Therefore, I support that the chairperson of this body should be a professional. He should have diverse knowledge and experience in terms of recruitment, selection, performance, management, training and development of the human resource in our counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is not only the chairperson of the board, but even the members of the board should be able to scrutinize the staff we are recruiting in our counties. It really saddens me at times when you meet a person employed in our counties who does not even know his role and the scope of his work. Therefore, this amendment to the County Government Bill has come at the right time when we need to improve more on those people who are entrusted with the important role of giving service to people in our counties. We need to recruit people who can play their role without politicizing everything. You will find people in our counties today who have possibly been employed because they supported a certain politician. However, when it comes to service delivery, they are not able to deliver services effectively and efficiently and this leads to delayed service provision in our counties because we have personnel who are not well trained and who lack the capacity to perform. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Bill will go a long way in improving the recruitment process in our counties. It will go a long way in reducing tribalism, nepotism and clannism that we see in our counties. You will find someone with the required qualifications, but because of lack of professionalism of the members of the County Public Service Board, this person is denied the job. This happens simply because the 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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