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"content": " Okay, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I beg to respond to the views on this Motion. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you may recall that on 5th April this year, I issued a Ministerial Statement in this House on the regional imbalances in recruitment and appointments in the Public Service. That happened because hon. Ojode had sought a Ministerial Statement to that effect. When I made the Ministerial Statement, I tabled in this House a report made from sample Ministries and State corporations as follows: Office of the President, Ministry of Finance, Central Bank of Kenya, Kenya Revenue Authority, Ministry of Education, Telkom Kenya and Kenya Railways Corporation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, at that time, hon. Members had an opportunity to scrutinise that report. I, indeed, asked hon. Members to inform me about the anomalies in that report and I, as the Minister of State for Public Service, would rectify them. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to tell you that to date, no Member of Parliament, including my friend hon. Ojode, has ever scrutinised that list and come back to us for any feedback. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to remind hon. Members that recruitment, appointment and promotion of officers in the Public Service is provided for in various statutes, including the Kenya Constitution, Service Commissions Act, State Corporations Act and specific State Corporations Acts which this House passed. We, as a Government, have strictly followed the rules or instructions in those statutes. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you may recall, Section 107 states inter alia :- \"Subject to this Constitution, the power to appoint persons to hold or act in the offices in the public service and in the service of local authorities, including the power, to confirm appointments, the power to exercise disciplinary control over persons holding or acting in those offices and the power to remove those persons from office shall vest in the Public Service Commission: Provided that the Commission may, with the approval of the President and subject to such conditions as it thinks fit, by directions in writing, delegate any of its powers under this Section to any one or more of its members or to any officer in the Public Service or, in the case of appointments to the service of local authorities, to particular local authorities.\" Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in my Ministerial Statement, I promised to provide this similar information. The Constitution, therefore, empowers the Public Service Commission to recruit, appoint and promote officers without any interference from any person. In fact, the same Section in the Constitution says that the Public Service Commission is not under the direction of any person. It is the Public Service Commission that is supposed to do those appointments. We 3848 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES September 12, 2007 only ensure that when recruitment is done - and I have personally discussed it with the Public Service Commission - it is distributed amongst all the districts. A good case in point is the appointment of District Officers (DOs). We appointed them from all the districts in this country, including those that are in the Opposition side. There was nothing like: \"This is from the Government side! Let them be appointed.\" So, the appointments are well spread. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when I was seated down there, hon. Ojode came to me. I showed him a list which I want to table here. It was on the distribution of staff in the Civil Service. I urge Members of Parliament to scrutinise this list. If you may allow me to read some of them for the benefit of this House--- But before I do so, I must congratulate hon. Ojode because when he came up with that Question, I formed an Inter-Ministerial Task Force to look at the entire Civil Service. The Inter-Ministerial Task Force has been trying, in one way or another, to do the balancing. The list is here! Instead of us coming up with the Ojode's Committee---- He can go through it and send me the feedback. Let me just read some of them. For example, in the Provincial Administration we have Mr. Cyrus Gituai who comes from Embu, Mr. Waweru James Mwiru who comes from Thika District, Mr. Munyi M.S. Gachomba who comes from Embu, Mr. Olando Paul who comes from Kakamega, Mr. Abdul Mwasera who comes from Kwale, Mr. Hassan Noor who comes from Mandera, Mr. Osare Patrick Otieno who comes from Kisumu, Mr. Rugut Kiplimo who comes from Nandi, Ms. Kimani Jeniffer Nyambura who comes from Murang'a and Mr. Mutali Muthali who comes from Lugari. That is one Ministry. Let me skip and go to another Ministry because I am going to table this list for them to see. In the Ministry of Education, we have Mr. Mutahi Edward Karega from Murang'a, Ms. Margaret Chepchumba from Nandi North, Mr. Godia Geoge Embaga from Vihiga District, Ms. Miruthi Miriam from Kakamega, Mr. Siele David Kipkeny from Kericho and Mr. Oyaya Enoch Ocheyo from Siaya. That is the Ministry of Education. In the Office of the Vice-President and Ministry of Home Affairs, we have Mrs. Nancy Chepkoni Kirui from Kericho, Mrs. Emily Mweru Gatuguta from Makueni, Mr. Hussein Ahmed from Wajir, Mr. John Ogula Sala from Nyando, Ms. Njeri Odhiambo Oloo from Siaya, Mr. Amos Odero Kwasi from Suba and Mr. John Lugwa Musa Juma from Kakamega. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want just to table this list for hon. Members to scrutinise. It is not fair."
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