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"content": "The protection of farmers, consumers and business people fall under the purview of the CAK. It is, therefore, the expectation of all players in the marketplace that the character of the DG of CAK must be in a position to ensure that there is fair play. He should protect us and the business community from middlemen, barons, or businesses that take advantage of their privileged positions in the market to exploit and push other players out of the market. I am looking at a situation where the DG of the CAK will be expected to ensure that we do not have rogue business people who use shortcuts to ensure that they get unfair advantage in the marketplace. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am talking about this because the Prime Cabinet Secretary, hon. Musalia Mudavadi, wrote to Parliament proposing the name of David Kibet Kemei to take the position of DG of the CAK. I realized that there were serious issues with the letter. First, in his mind and his officers’, ‘the National Assembly’ means ‘Parliament,’ yet the law is very clear that when you talk about Parliament, reference must be made to both the National Assembly and the Senate. That notwithstanding, I have looked at the Report and realized that the Joint Committee wrote to various organizations, including the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the office of the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB), the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties (ORPP) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), seeking clearance for one David Kibet Kemei in order to approve the appointment to the position of DG of CAK. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have looked at those letters and realized that the letter that came from the EACC raised serious issues about Mr. Kibet Kemei. They said that Mr. Kibet alongside other board members of the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) sat and approved a wrongful recruitment of the KMTC Corporation Secretary in 2015. When the matter went to court, it was determined that the occupant of the position who was irregularly recruited, had earned over Kshs23 million and a decision was taken that the board members then, should be surcharged to recover that money. The reason the Joint Committee was writing to these institutions was to get information to help them make a decision. However, here is the situation; information is received from the EACC, which contributes to an adverse report on the candidate, but the Committee is still asking us to approve that name. I have a problem with that. Secondly, in the recruitment process of the DG, the CAK gave a local management consulting firm the job to recruit a new DG for them. That firm shortlisted 30 candidates. The independent firm that had been retained by the CAK to recruit a DG for them and its rating. Mr. Kemei was ranked number 29 with a 60 per cent score. The CAK undertook to interview the 30 shortlisted candidates by the consulting firm. Interestingly, Mr. Kemei, scored 87 per cent and was ranked number two. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, though the scoring and the recruitment of a person at the level of a DG can get subjective, there are tools used for this kind of recruitment. Therefore, the disparity would not be that big. You cannot score 60 per cent in one set of interviews for the same position and then in the next set, you are scoring 87 per cent. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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