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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "education, and are proud to be serving in big offices or have been considered for those offices? Madam Temporary Speaker, if you are a passenger in an airplane which was currently airborne and somebody told you that the pilot in the cockpit is illiterate, how would you feel? To fly an aircraft, you must be competent. Surely flying an aircraft is a smaller calling than what is expected of us when we are in constitutional offices. I, again, beg all of us to agree that education is important and it should be applied equally as a standard. Madam Temporary Speaker, Clause 4(b) states that the chairperson should meet the requirements of Chapter 6 of the Constitution. Again, we should stop allowing the provisions of this Chapter in our Constitution and subjecting it to just lip service. It cannot be lip service. People must be subjected to Chapter 6 if we want to fight corruption in this country. For the last two weeks, we had 15 people undergoing vetting painstakingly through a Committee of this House called the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget. Now, when the same people go into office, they will find that the people who were vetting them are less competent than them. We should respect Chapter 6. In the same Clause, they are saying that the chairperson should have a distinguished career in their respective fields. Fine. When you just say distinguished career without specifying how long someone has been in that career, you are making it open-ended and also creating an opportunity whereby, people will start thinking that the longer the distinguished career is, the more attractive it is. For example, we have young people from the university - I have such young people in my family, my own children - with two or three years of experience. They are perfect professionals. I look at my children and I say that anybody denying these young people from serving the country because they do not have those many years of experience, is actually denying qualified Kenyans an opportunity to serve us even better. Madam Temporary Speaker, Clause 5 provides for the membership of this board. Clause 5(b) says that the member should have knowledge and experience of at least 10 years in matters relating to the devolved functions. I hope to amend this provision so that we reduce it from ten years to three years of experience on matters of devolution so that, one; to attract young professionals from the university to get employment. Two, not to unnecessarily favour older members of society in hogging jobs that can be equally done by the youth. Three, this is also in recognition to the fact that even devolution itself has not been there for too long, it has just been there for 11 years. So, where will you get all these professionals who have 10 years of experience in matters devolution? There are not that many because the principle has been around for a very short time. The Bill also provides that the person and the members of the Intergovernmental Agency shall serve on a full-time basis. Fine but let us reflect on this. Before we legislate that an agency like this one serves on a full-time basis, let us dissect the functions and ask ourselves; can these functions be done on a quarterly, half-yearly or whatever basis other than full-time? This is so that we save the high cost of running Government. You know the experience we have today with the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC). Why is a Commission that just sits to decide how much people"
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