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    "id": 102208,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Were",
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        "legal_name": "David Aoko Were",
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    "content": "I want to make it clear that as a Committee, we have no problem with any of the candidates who had applied. Our problem was with the way the interviews were conducted. That is actually what we were pursuing. Were the interviews fair? Were they done correctly? As a Committee, we felt that fairness was not given to all the candidates who applied for the job. We also realized that there were very many qualified candidates who would have been interviewed among the 27 candidates, but were not given a chance to appear before Manpower Services. We wondered why, in the first place, the interviews were conducted. It was our feeling that they were conducted just to hoodwink Kenyans. There was no need for an interview. As a matter of fact, the Act allows the Minister to appoint a Managing Director without going through an interview. We were wondering why the Board felt it fit to hold interviews when actually it looked like it had a predetermined name for appointment. Why did they not just go ahead and appoint him? If you look at the way the exercise was conducted, you will find that it appeared like they were hoodwinking Kenyans because many people had applied but they were not given an opportunity to be interviewed and yet they had very good qualifications. Why did the Board use taxpayers’ money and hoodwink Kenyans that they were carrying out an interview rather than go ahead and appoint the Managing Director? So, as a Committee, we felt that the exercise was flawed and not necessary. There was no need for the adverts to be carried in the newspapers and the interviews to be conducted when they had a predetermined candidate whom they wanted to appoint. So, because of that, the Committee recommended that the process be started afresh to accord all Kenyans a fair and equal opportunity to participate as well as satisfy all that there was fairness in the process."
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