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    "id": 1129002,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1129002/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "The reasons of the Committee are as follows: That this was carried in our initial Bill, but did not go through the Senate. We had proposed that all director-generals of those entities serve five years in our 2017 Bill, but that was opposed in the Senate. It passed through this House with the approval that we move the term of the director-generals of KURA, KeNHA and KeRRA from three to five years. That passed in this House and the Senate. It is only because of those clauses that were of concern to the counties that Senate did not agree with us. That is why the Bill died then. That is why this is almost a cut and paste. This was passed in the House and that is why we are bringing it back here. (ii) To cure what we call project cycle, we have realised that for one to do a successful project, it requires first the design of the road. After designing the road, it is followed by sourcing for money. Then you advertise and implement. It takes a bit of time and that is the truth. If you bring a director-general for three years, their term will end before they fundraise for the project. This leads to instability in those agencies in terms of designing and looking for the money for a project to be implemented successfully. Therefore, to reduce that instability, we propose that the House agrees with us that we give them five years. They are doing a great job all over in almost every constituency in this country. Rather than having somebody who before they settle, they are thinking about going home the third year, we think this will stabilise the agencies. (iii) Succession management. When you do not have stable institutions in terms of the years, you find that there will be a lot of instability even in succession. You can witness that within agencies that we have overseen for the last four years and so, we look forward to stabilising institutions. Finally, one of the imports is that in the same department of infrastructure, we have director-generals with tenure of five years in the ministry. We do not want discrimination. When they go for leadership conferences or meetings, we have some director-generals with a term of three and others with five years. It creates some discrimination, intimidation and imbalance. That is why the House needs to agree with us so that we create synergy within the department of infrastructure. The second proposed amendment is to reduce the years of qualification for one to become a director-general from 15 to 10 years after one is registered as an engineer. We are convinced as a Committee that we would better do that for many reasons. Through public participation, one, is the age upon which somebody can qualify or have 15 years post-registration experience. We calculated and realised that for you to qualify, you require 48 years and we thought that was a bit discriminatory. The 2007 law was meant for some few people. What happens with the younger qualified Kenyans? At 48 years, you are almost retiring. Most Members of Parliament (MP’s) here are very good despite their age. I, for example, was a CEO, an equivalent with some of those director-generals, at a much younger age between 2008 and 2012. I did exceptionally well and that is why I was elected by the great people of Pokot South to represent them because I did exceptionally well in the Kenya Film Classification Board, which was then the Kenya Film Censorship Board. I transformed it from a censorship board of less than 10 staff to what it is at the moment. I am proud of it and, therefore, I am a living example. If it is supposed to be that for anybody to qualify they must be 48 years, I might not have even qualified and yet, I did a great job and that is one of my motivations."
}