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"content": "doctor. So the Minister even in his own wisdom, if he used the names given to him by the Board and appointed one whether that one was number one or number four, he had the discretion to appoint any of the four, then the House and the country would have had a lot of respect. But here you have a situation where you do not check whether in that list you have groups in this country who are marginalised category either through regional imbalance or through sex orientation or whether the female have not been given any particular opportunity. There was even a lady who was acting and she is a member of staff of that same institution. They could still have gone ahead to confirm her. She was a good manager as we know. But we have a situation where, now we are only expressing displeasure. The Minister of State for public Service is here and I think he is well placed to advise the Cabinet Ministers particularly when they have their meetings at State House, to tell them if there is a Minister in Government, the Minister is a Minister of the Republic of Kenya. He is not there to represent his own constituency or his own tribe or your own relatives. You give this country and Kenyan people, the 40 million Kenyans, equal chance then people can feel proud that they have a country and they have got leaders. If the Minister wanted to appoint Dr. Onudi, there was nothing difficult by him allowing Dr. Onudi to go through the process, then the Board would have shortlisted him and then he had the discretion to appoint. Here, we have a situation where the Board has been trashed. How many other Ministers have done the same thing? If you go to a Ministry today, you will realise that everyone speaks one language. From the Minister all the way down the language is one. It is neither English nor Kiswahili but the native language of the Minister. Then we want to say that we have a country? If you go to state Corporations, you find that people have put in all their clansmen and tribesmen to fill those positions, yet those positions belong to everybody in this country. As a Committee, we are going to be very thorough and I will provide reports to Parliament. I will begin from Parliament itself. We will ask the Parliamentary Service Commission to furnish us with the staff they have. We will go to the Office of the President and particularly the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security. From there, we will go to the Treasury and to every Ministry in this Republic and ask them to furnish us with the list of the staff they have. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will be shocked to see that there are Ministries which belong exclusively to one community. That is a shame. We want Ministers to be sure that the law is followed. Here is a clear case of abuse of the law yet we have the director still serving even after Parliament has shown displeasure. The Minister has no apologies to make. We are only asking two things; we want him to follow the due process of law within 60 days. He can as well have Dr. Onudi back and continue to serve the institution but for heavenâs sake, let us clear the process so that this is not repeated by Ministers who will be occupying these offices as one Minister exits. If this continues, we risk polarising the country. When we polarise the country, what we have seen after the elections becomes quite shallow because of what could befall us. The country is bitter because of such activities. If we allow this to happen now, it will happen in another Ministry. It will happen in another corporation and by the end of it all, you have no country to call Kenya, people will be fighting in the streets. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we want Parliament to approve this Report. We want to reprimand the Minister for Medical Services for what he did but not only him, let us reprimand any other Minister who violates the law. Let us reprimand all of"
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