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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to make my contribution on this Competition Bill. I have some reservations on the way issues have been arranged here. There is this Authority that has been mentioned. Clause 10(a) states that a non-executive Chairman shall be appointed by the Minister. It also states that the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry for the time being responsible for finance or his representative; the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry for the time being responsible for trade or his representative; and the Attorney-General or his representative will comprise the Authority. I have reservations because this Authority will be working for the country. Clause 11(1) states that the members of the Authority shall be paid such remunerations, fees allowances, disbursements for the expenses as may be approved by the Minister. When you look at the set up of the Authority, it comprises of people who already have jobs. We expect to have checks and balances in this Authority. If the Permanent Secretaries, who are supposed to be the implementing persons in their Ministries are the same people being charged with the responsibility to oversee the functions of this Authority--- It is the same team that is being asked to arrest and prosecute themselves! Today, we know that Permanent Secretaries are ever busy. They are ever attending meetings and functions. Adding them other jobs and yet we have educated Kenyans who are tarmacking and languishing out there, does not go well with the expectations of Kenyans. We must be careful, as Members of Parliament, in everything that we do here. I want to urge my colleagues to suggest changes in this Bill. Please, let us not overload a few Kenyans with jobs and increase their incomes when there are other Kenyans out there who are looking for the same jobs. My kind request is that we get people from the private sector to manage this Authority so that the allowances paid can be given to those people without jobs. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have problems of hiring workers in this country. If, today, there is a vacancy in any Ministry in this country, the competition is always based on tribal issues. People canvass for those jobs. Others will approach you to tell you that if you do not appoint them, then their community will feel bad. In fact, they will say, âWe are being finished.â There must be a special committee to appoint persons to this Authority. This is a very sensitive Authority which will deal with influential matters and more so prices. We know very well that the matter of prices of commodities is a problem to our people. Let these jobs be given to those who do not have jobs. Ministers and Permanent Secretaries should sit in their offices and wait for discussions and issues raised by the Authority. Their work will be to examine those matters and come up with a solution to"
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