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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Maore",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Maoka Maore",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker Sir, I know that the Government is looking for people with experience. I remember the lobbying and the ironical speeches that the Government gave at the beginning of 2003, when it assumed power. They said they did not want anything to do with the previous Government. They also said that they did not want to repeat the mistakes of the previous Government. The only way to de-link from the previous Government was to look for people with the longest experience. But if they have bad manners, we should send them home and get new and fresh blood. It is surprising to note that, in its fifth year, this Government is still appointing very experienced and over-aged \"home boys\". That would the best word to use. When you attain 55 years, you are supposed to give chance to somebody else. If you want to give a contract, you can do so for one year to allow somebody else to be trained in that position. A Question to that effect will be forwarded to the Minister of State for Public Service. I know he will be at pains to defend something which is defenceless. We want this Government to formulate a policy statement to genuinely recruit young people into the Public Service. Let those who are chairmen of those boards lead the retirees and not the other way round. You will go to a parastatal and find that the chairman of the board is younger than the managing director. It is a behaviour that is only found in Kenya. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to talk about the various instruments that we have passed here to do with good governance. We passed the Public Procurement and Disposal Act and the Public Officer and Ethics Act. But, through the craving of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), people think that if you make the wealth declaration public, it will stop corruption. That is not true. The only way to control corruption in the Public Service is to punish those who are involved in corruption. It is not wealth declaration! Mr. Speaker, Sir, we submit our wealth declaration forms to you every year. But I can assure you that very many hon. Members here will agree with me that the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) is lazy and busy doing nothing! They never know what is in our wealth declaration forms. They will not scrutinise those forms unless there is a political red herring raised by somebody who wants to settle some scores with somebody else. We have many corruption cases which have been forwarded to KACC, but they were just noted in a reference and nothing happens. We want to support any initiative that can activate those legislations. With those few remarks, I beg to support. 114 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES March 27, 2007"
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