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    "content": "skills, drawing from his experiences overseeing multi-agency regional programmes and leading cross-functional teams in the Great Lakes Region and other international assignments. He presented his six-pillar vision for the State Department, including bottom-up planning, performance tracking, and enhanced collaboration with development partners. The approval of these nominees will be very instrumental in strengthening the strategic functions of the Ministry of the National Treasury and Economic Planning. Their wealth of experience will help Kenya tackle public asset inefficiencies and align economic planning with transformative national goals. In line with global trends in public sector reform and economic transformation, the country's expectations for the nominees go beyond the fulfilment of statutory mandates. Kenyans and this House expect the nominees to embrace international best practices proven to enhance transparency, efficiency, and developmental impact. Countries such as South Africa and New Zealand have adopted the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) to improve transparency in public asset management. Those standards provide a structured approach to reporting and accountability, ensuring that governments are clear about the value, condition, and usage of national assets. They must borrow from the best practices globally, such as in the United Kingdom (UK) and Singapore. That can also be done in our country. We encourage the nominees to use the Integrated National Planning System platform. We need to ensure that we use data mining and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in our planning predictions. The State Department for Public Investments and Asset Management will be in charge of privatisation. A lot needs to be considered in terms of what should be or should not be privatised. Governments have no business running businesses, and if this House approves these principal secretaries, they should come up with a robust way of ensuring that underutilised resources in this country are properly utilised and that many idle resources and institutions are run more efficiently, even in the private sector. As for the Principal Secretary for the State Department for Economic Planning, we have never taken economic planning seriously as a country. This candidate demonstrated the use of the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA) in economic planning, and we encourage him to do two things. First, we need to ensure that our economic planning starts from the bottom of the pyramid all the way up, in addition to ensuring that we include our counties in the national planning of this country. We currently have 47 counties with different economic plans, and they are still part of the Republic of Kenya. We hope there will be an integration of our planning systems between our county governments and the national Government so that we have a robust economic plan. Even though we appreciate the experience of our aged population in the public service, there is still a big deficit of young people. We hope these principal secretaries will have a youth- driven strategy in their State departments to ensure young blood in our planning systems. With those many remarks, I beg to move that the House approves the appointment of these two very professional candidates. I request CPA Hon. Rutto, Member for Kesses and a Member of this Committee, to second."
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