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    "content": "There are petitions coming, like the issue in Bomet County. How did the CPSB end up employing 3,500 staff just before the general elections? If there was a human resource person sitting as a chairperson, we would be holding that person to account because under the standards of recruiting, they would know what to do. I am also addressing the Senator for Nyeri County. One of the counties suffering out of human resource in terms of the expenditure is Nyeri County. They are spending 85 per cent or more of their sharable revenue paying workers. The professional County Public Service Board (CPSB) chairperson would, at the first instance, advise the county government to freeze recruitment of workers until they do the audit. That applies to Nairobi and Mombasa. These two cities are, without limitation, possibly the dirtiest in this region, yet, just like Nyeri, they claim that they are spending a lot of money paying workers. What do they pay these workers to do? Madam Temporary Speaker, I expect that this professional that we are including will advise county governments to audit the workers. For example, he or she would check who is assigned to water flowers on Kenyatta Avenue and ensure that the rivers in Nairobi County are clean. How do we account? The previous section that we are seeking to amend just hired a person who has a degree. Governors and others proposed people, who are serving in these positions, who just have a normal degree. It could be a degree in catering or veterinary medicine - I do not have a problem with veterinarians. When we were considering the impeachment of the late Gov. Gachagua – may his soul rest in peace – one of the allegations and accusations then was that the Acting County Executive Committee (CEC) Member was a veterinary doctor as opposed to a finance person. The law requires that the CEC for Finance must be a person qualified in financial matters. If counties are spending up to 70 or 80 per cent--- We were with the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) today and I expected that the Senator for Taita-Taveta County would be here. They are only spending 15 per cent of their shareable revenue on development. That means that 85 per cent of the revenue that we send to Taita-Taveta and many other counties goes to employment. Is it not time we started doing those audits? It is these chairpersons of CPSBs that are recruiting political and legal advisors as opposed to a county attorney. I do not know what they are supposed to do. They are also economic advisors, fashion designers and all sorts of advisors. When we hire a professional, who is subject to the professional standards like lawyers, architects and surveyors and engineers, like the Senator for Nyeri County, he will be able to answer questions, not only before the county government, but also the professional organisation. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this and many amendments. I hope that the Committee, led by Sen. Kinyua, can audit the County Governments Act. Do we need to have five, six or ten amendments? Sen. Murkomen, Sen. Cheruiyot and I have all proposed amendments. Maybe another Senator will come up with other amendments. In the last Session we had almost six or seven amendments from a raft of Senators. Is it time to start interrogating this? This morning we were asked what happened to the county boards that we passed in the Senate and the National Assembly, and then signed into law by His Excellency 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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