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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "content": "of recruitment, who shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the school. That is all they say about this man or woman we are creating here. What are the powers that he or she will have? What is the thing that will make him to effect transformational change in that institution? If I, Mr. Mungatana, were to be appointed the Director-General, what powers would I have to make institutional changes to the Kenya School of Government, and say that during my tenure I did this and that and after that, so and so took over? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, he has been given no powers at all. Contrary to the pieces of legislation we have passed here in the past, this Director will really be a paper Director-General. He will not have any powers. Nothing has been given to him and the most ridiculous thing of all is that the Cabinet Secretary in clause 20--- I want to read, so that the House can listen to it:- “The Cabinet Secretary may make regulations for the better carrying out of the purposes of this Act and in particular with respect to:- (a)staff appointment and discipline;” So, what is the Director General doing? “(b) Staff welfare, including pension schemes, gratuities, superannuation or Provident Fund; (c) general management of the School.” Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we will have a Cabinet Secretary seated in Nairobi doing general management and rules and regulations for general management of a school that he will never be visiting. Probably in his five year tenure he will go there once or twice. These Cabinet Secretaries, as you know, will be very busy because we are going to have fewer Ministries. Therefore, we will have a Cabinet Secretary who, even without any form of approval of the Council that has been provided for here, will make regulations himself. He can dream at night and then come in the morning and say it has to be like this. He can then gazette the regulations without even the approval of the Council, or the participation of the Director-General. Then why are we creating this? We could have as well left it to the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the Kenya School of Government. Why are we creating an institution about which we say the following in Clause 3:- “It shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and in its name be capable of suing, being sued and doing all such things that a body corporate can do”. We have even said in Clause 5(h) that it will conduct examinations and award diplomas and other forms of suitable awards to successful candidates. We give it this power, yet we make it subject to a Cabinet Secretary, who might be a complete non- professional in that area. He might not himself have gone through any school of Government. How can we allow him to micro-manage this proposed Kenya School of Government? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill needs to be rethought seriously. I trust the Minister will go and listen to what we are saying here. We need to create something that is not going to be subject to an individual. This school will be very dependent on the Cabinet Secretary in charge. Even the approval of estimates and everything will be on the Cabinet Secretary so that even the Director-General and his team will have their annual estimates subject to the approval of the Cabinet Secretary."
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