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"content": "The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) also granted the certificate of good conduct, a process that is something which I do not know what you are going to do about. I find it to be extremely archaic what you have to go through to get a DCI good conduct approval. Occasionally, I see and I think amongst the last days of President Uhuru Kenyatta, Uhuru, I saw him launch a forensic lab or something. When are we going to make that information available across the various parts of our country, as such that citizens can get good conduct within a matter of hours? I believe that they have copies of these records of who are the criminals, and if not records, then if not hours, then at least one or two days. The truth of the matter is that when you apply for good conduct nowadays, the minimum wait time sometimes even runs into months without getting approval. Many young people are missing job opportunities on account of a lack of good conduct. For example, in my county, when they are recruiting people to work in the multinational tea states, and most of those jobs, they recruit quarterly. Sometimes your certificate of good conduct expires midway, and because these people work extremely hard from Monday to Saturday, they do not get the time even to apply for renewal, or by the time they apply, when the next renewal of their conduct comes, they do not have a renewed certificate of good conduct, they do not get the contract. If there is an institution, and I want to believe that when our colleagues in the National Assembly get to vet the next Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration, when that opportunity presents itself, or even when he comes to this House, to answer questions next session, part of the things we must demand of the person, the gentleman or the lady that will serve in this docket next; he/she should give a policy direction on what will be the quickest turnaround time for citizens to acquire, or what will it take for citizens to acquire good conduct within a maximum of seven days at most. There are many Kenyans who are missing job opportunities on account of this certification. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, moving to the more important issues, there is the resume of Mr. Gerald Nyaoma Arita. This nominee has 36 years’ experience, which is my entire life less two years. He has been in the banking industry and has experience in issues such as payment system, quality control, banking supervision, banking services and financial markets. There is only one thing that I had hoped Sen. Eddie would have asked the nominee because I know he serves in Standing Committee on Finance and Budget. I do not expect Sen. Faki to ask this. However, because you are young and dynamic, I had expected you would have asked this gentleman what is his view on regulation of cryptocurrency in this country. I have scanned through your report, but, unfortunately, that question was not captured. Many countries that are more liberal in their thinking are beginning to live within the realms of reality and accepting that there are many people who are trading on Bitcoin and binary assets. It is important that the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) leads the conversation. If you ask them today, chances are that they will tell you they formed a working committee. 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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