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    "content": "producers is just evidence of how we need, as a Government and as a region even in conjunction with those other regions â the ACP â to focus on creating mechanisms that will allow our commodities to be in good league with the European market. Many of our products go to fetch very huge profits for non-producers just because they can add value and just because the value chain is tilted in their favor. Therefore, the ultimate result is a country like Kenya that continues to provide labour, land and the product but the testimony of the producer is a farmer who walks barefoot and who can barely meet the minimum expected for survival. Therefore, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in line with this effort to bring this Bill, in order to focus on price controls and in order to ventilate and interrogate traders, it will be important for us, in view of the significance of the international markets, the goods that are in our supermarkets and in the malls are not restricted to our region or to our continent. Therefore, we need to expand the picture beyond this and I look forward to getting the Ministry of Trade in conjunction with the Ministry of Finance and the Treasury addressing this matter of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), because it has agonized every joint assembly with the European Union (EU) but without any positive results to produce a system or a regime that will make Africa and particularly Kenya - the producer of some of the most precious commodities for the international markets and specifically the European markets â get its value for its produce. Secondly, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the section in this bill on the creation of the Authority is good. But as we are moving towards a new Constitution, it is important for us to reflect on what we need to do in order to create good governance in the State corporations in line with the demand for basic corporate governance; with the need for us to create systems or rules that will allow the board of directors and the management to meet the targets that are being set by the line Ministries. We need to think through the criteria of appointments of members to these corporations. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Authority consists of the Chairman, appointed by a Minister, which is okay because there will be consultations; the Permanent Secretary responsible for Finance; the Permanent Secretary for the time being responsible for Trade; the Attorney-General in order to provide the legal advice and the Director-General appointed by the Authority and five other persons to be appointed by the Minister, who shall be people who are experienced in consumer welfare matters. Given the experience that we have in various Ministries where Ministers are just appointing their cronies, sycophants and tribesmen or tribeswomen, it is important that this Bill does consider the gazettement of the rules. These rules should apply to all other Bills that will provide for the creation of authorities for implementation of that subsidiary legislation so that the individuals so appointed to these agencies are individuals who can be interrogated by the nominating authorities. An example, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, is the Water Sector Reforms Programme (WSRP) initiated in 2003. The WSRP did invite the participation of various stakeholders who added value and who had unique capacities; who widened the area of harvesting of skills and the participation of stakeholders in the leadership of the water boards. For instance, in the Nairobi Water Company, we have the tourism sector that, by a regulation, was so created. We have the African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF) Kenya for sanitation focus; we have PLAN International with their branch,"
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