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    "id": 849052,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "to us. All county governments‘ workers are expressing uncertainty in terms of their pensions. The county governors are not paying PAYE as required to either Local Authorities Provident Fund (LAPFUND) or Local Authorities Pensions Trust (LAPTRUST). They say that there is no enabling legislation. Therefore, the blame out there in the country is on the Senate because we have not been able to conclude on this Bill. (3) Request every county government to harmonize the terms and conditions of employment of all employees working in that county government. We will ask Senators to give us their input on this. There are three categories. There are those who were in the defunct councils and those who were employed by the new governors in 2013. There are also those who were seconded. Therefore, there are people doing the same category of work, but with different terms of reference et cetera. Finally, we have realised the number of casuals is a conduit used by many county governments to pay ghost workers who are gotten every six months, for example, the ones we see in Nairobi City County planting flowers. (4) Develop a framework together with all the Senators through which counties can share scarce and specialised personnel; Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have 47 different County Public Service Boards (CPSBs), but have certain skills and competence required. We do not have 47 neurosurgeons or quantity surveyors who are available to the counties. Therefore, we are working with the CPSBs to ensure that we anchor within the County Governments Act a framework through which we can have one umbrella CPSB. This will ensure that employees at the county are not employees of the specific counties, but the CPSB. This will also help us to reduce what we are now seeing happening in our counties that have become ethnic balkans. For a person to get a job in Kitui, they must come from Kitui. For a person to get a job in Vihiga County, they must come from Vihiga. This leaves a huge category of Kenyans whose National Identity Cards (IDs) do not match their places of birth or origin without work. If we can do reshuffles and take people round, in the spirit of building bridges, we will make sure that any Kenyan gets a job and works anywhere in this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will now move on to my second Statement which also arose during our visit."
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