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    "id": 975894,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Rural, CCU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Mboni",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Mwalika Mboni",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my views and support the Public Service (Values and Principles) (Amendment) Bill by Hon. Andrew Mwadime. We need to understand that in the public service, recruitment is done through various institutions. Among them is the Public Service Commission, whose membership is appointed by higher authorities. Principal Secretaries and Cabinet Secretaries are appointed by higher authorities. Parastatals recruit their staff members through their human resource departments, while the county governments recruit using their respective public service boards. We have to understand that all these appointing authorities have failed this country. They have not complied with the Constitution. The Constitution is clear on the issue of gender balance. Thirty per cent of the people being recruited should be of the opposite gender. There are issues of persons with disabilities. This has been ignored. People from disadvantaged groups and disadvantaged areas have also been ignored. A lot of youths have not been spared because of corruption and tribalism in recruitment. These are the issues we need to agree on. County governments are supposed to recruit 30 per cent of its workforce from outside their counties. What is happening in the counties? All employees of county governments are from the same county and same tribe, speaking the same language. At times I wonder what kind of language they use when they have meetings. Having worked in the public service, I remember a Ministry where all the senior people – the Principal Secretary, the Cabinet Secretary and the directors – were from the same tribe. When you went to their meetings and you were from another tribe, you would not know what to say because all communication would be done in mother tongue. What needs to be done is for The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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