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    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "After that, she was promoted to become the Chief Accountant or Deputy Head of Accounting Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a position she served between 2011 and 2012. Further, between 2012 and 2016, she was promoted to serve as Acting Assistant Accounting General, Head of Training and Secretariat at the Corporate Governance Sub-Committee of the Public Service Accountants Standards Board (PSASB). She later proceeded to work as an Assistant Accountant General, Head of Accounting Unit at the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum between 2016 and 2018. Up to the time of her appointment, she was serving as the Senior Deputy Accountant General in the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, a position she has held to 2019. We were keen to note that the nominee is a receiver of several awards; the 2nd runners- up Public Sector Awards and the ICPAK Award for 2017 for leading the State Department to be tax compliant. Also, in 2019, her agency was among the top five agencies awarded by His Excellency the President for the highest amount of Value Added Tax (VAT) collected. Hon. Speaker, during the vetting exercise, an interesting discussion came up. When she was appointed as the Chairperson of CRA, most reports from the media were in relation to her spouse, of course, a commonly known name in every household in Kenya, the Chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), Mr. Chebukati. We had a unique time as a Committee wondering whether to go into issues of who someone is married to against their academic qualifications but, CPA Mary took up the task and went on to explain that during her well decorated career of 37 years, as I have read out to you and the Committee established, the issue of who she was married to was never a point of discussion. It was only until she was nominated for the position of Chairperson of CRA that the question of her spouse came into discussion. It was very unfair to see people thrash her curriculum vitae and the many years of hard work she put both in public service and pursuing her academic qualifications. This House needs to ask whether we accord the same treatment when vetting male candidates for various positions. Does anybody care whose husband someone is when they get appointed? So, why the double standards for professional, qualified and experienced women of this country? Why does the question of their spouse come to play? CPA Mary Wanyonyi is a proud wife and mother and no matter what was said, she would still choose that gentleman as her husband. I thought this is how our women should be proud of their husbands. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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