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    "id": 1013535,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bomachoge Borabu, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Zadoc Ogutu",
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        "legal_name": "Zadoc Abel Ogutu",
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    "content": "the Bill. As a nation we are growing. If we have to make strides that do not take us back, we must put in measures that will hold us whenever circumstances or situations do not work in our favour. Retirement age has been an issue in this country simply because we have not seriously looked at how to open up the job market. We only struggle to ensure that our human resources take up the limited opportunities that exist and the few that are created. I would like to see a nation where the 60-year age limit is not an issue. Such a nation can only be created by this House through the policies and pieces of legislation that we make, which will ensure that we are able to create jobs. The CEOs who retire at the age of 60 should be assessed in terms of how many jobs they have created while in office. At the same time, as my colleagues have said, it is important to look at successful CEOs based on their exit strategies, which include how they hand over leadership to those who take over from them. In most cases, CEOs strain to work and even delay their succession. It needs to be very clear that in assessing the performance of CEOs, the PSC should look at their ability to hand over leadership. That is an element of succession. Even as we discuss this important amendment, there are institutions in this country that are not running not because there is no manpower, but because the recruitment process has delayed. I have in mind about 18 universities with no councils, about six or seven have no vice-chancellors while many others have no top management. This is an element partly resulting from poor retirement and recruitment process. As a nation, let us be open to allow Kenyans to compete for opportunities that are created, opportunities which exist, which can be earned on merit and experience rather than delaying and dodging the recruitment processes to scuttle the running of our institutions. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to finish by saying that when we talk about compulsory retirement, we are actually talking about giving every Kenyan an opportunity to contribute substantively to the growth and development of this country. I support this amendment."
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