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"speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I congratulate the petitioners for bringing this Petition to the Senate. This House has continued to receive important petitions on matters related to devolution. One of the subjects that has remained contentious is the manner in which human resources is run in the counties. Counties are smaller entities and they have had challenges dealing with recurrent expenditure. Machakos County may not be a good example for this, but county public servants who got new governors in the last election had their jobs terminated on flimsy grounds to pave way for people who had been given political promises. As the relevant Committee deals with this issue, it should ensure that the county public service board enjoys its independence because there is a lot of interference from the county executive. If you look at the drafting of the County Public Service Board (CPSB) in the County Governments Act, the intention is to create a semi-independent or sort of independent institution like the Public Service Commission (PSC) at the national level."
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