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    "id": 247430,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muturi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Justin Bedan Njoka Muturi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support this Bill. It has come at the right time. The reasons as advanced in the memorandum of objectives are quite clear. I wish to pick one or two issues on this Bill. I am quite happy that for the first time in this country, as would be seen in the definition section, that open space within our cities and municipalities will now be protected from the mania that we have witnessed in the recent past of land grabbing and be declared part of our national heritage. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am a bit worried about the composition of the board as provided for under Clause 6. It appears to me that virtually everybody who will be serving in the board will be an appointee of the Minister. In this age and era, there is need to have some members of the board who may not necessarily be direct appointees of the Minister. Clause 6(1) says:- \"There is established a Board of Directors of the National Museums of Kenya which shall be the governing body of the National Museums and shall consists of the following members:- (c) the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry for the time being responsible for national museums; (d) the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry for the time being responsible for finance; (h) a Director-General appointed by the Minister after consultations with the board who shall be an ex-officio member and secretary to the board.\" This is just a game of musical chairs. We are just going round in circles. It means that the Director-General will be an appointee of the Minister granted that the Minister is the one who will be appointing virtually every member of the board, indeed, including the chairman. The chairman is appointed by the Minister after consultations with the President. I want to urge the Minister to bring this provision in tandem with the provisions of the State Corporations Act Cap.446. I can see the Minister is not listening to me. What I am trying to tell him is that there is conflict because under that Act, the body being created here is a body corporate and, therefore, a parastatal. Being such a parastatal, it will be governed by the provisions of the State Corporations Act, Cap.446 which places the power to appoint chairmen of parastatal boards in the President. However, in this particular case, we are making some very interesting innovations, that the chairman will be appointed by the Minister after consultations with the President. I think this is unnecessary. If you want the President to continue appointing, just let him do so."
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