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    "id": 1129008,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sotik, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dominic Koskei",
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        "legal_name": "Dominic Kipkoech Koskei",
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    "content": "Secondly, I want to talk about the years of experience that a director-general can qualify from 15 years currently in the Act to 10 years. This will just open the position to be very competitive. There is absolutely no problem in appointing a director-general who has experience of more than 20 or 30 years. What is in the law now is at least 15 years post-registration experience. I am an engineer. What does that mean? If you look at it critically, you cannot be a director-general in this body when you are not 45 or 50 years old. That is quite discriminatory. We want to open it for people who climb the ladder very fast. At 40 years, they are able to change their profession and become director-generals. We want to be a bit more dynamic to the country and open it to be a very competitive position. That is why we generally agreed all of us. You can imagine somebody gets to the director-general position and in three years, he is supposed to exit or require the board to renew his term. We really looked at it and said three years is too short a time. Five years is okay so that if by five years somebody has not done his work and the board feels that it should not renew the term, then somebody should exit. Five years is good enough for somebody to implement programmes. In fact, there is no programme which runs for two years. Most programmes are five years. Strategic plans are for five years. A director-general should really have ample time to implement projects. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I second. Thank you very much."
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