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    "content": "here is that we are not talking about representatives of the people to serve on this board. We are talking about these people by themselves as persons. We have had instances where we have such important boards, commissions or whatever you call them and have had people sending their representatives and they cannot be held to account. So that is something that I thought was very well considered. But what I have seen again, that is taking us back to what I do not approve myself out of the experience I have had in some of these institutions is on page 19; the Witness Protection Appeals Tribunal. We are saying that it shall consist of a chairman who will be the calibre of a judge of the High Court of Kenya. When we come to “b”, we are talking about other members appointed by the Minister who shall be persons possessing, in the Minister’s opinion”; expert knowledge of the matters likely to come before the tribunal. I think it would have been better now for us to start being specific. If we leave this kind of open discretion, people will come because we are all human beings--- Maybe I support a Minister and I go and convince him that I understand these things and he appoints me in that place because we are leaving a lot of discretion. I think we should be specific so that if the Minister can pick, he can go ahead. Right now in Kenya, we have a pool of human resources; people are very qualified and I think we can select from the shortlisted field rather than saying that we leave it to the discretion of somebody with the knowledge of something."
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