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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, let us set the qualifications because when we leave discretion unchecked, even in a board, then this discretion becomes an avenue for rent collection. So, I would request the Minister to come with appropriate qualifications at the Committee Stage. Let us have standards. Let us have the ten years’ experience that we have said before. Let us have a degree mentioned and not just say a relevant degree. As we know, what has been happening in Kenya all the time when it comes to important positions, people tend to position their own. Even boards have been known to favour certain candidates. They tailor qualifications for certain candidates. Finally, on Clause 23, and I wish the Minister would listen to this one. I want to talk about the transition of the staff. We have come very clearly on the Floor of this House on the Second Reading that it is not going to be wholesale for the Kenya Anti- Corruption Commission to transit all the staff. The same procedure that was used there must surely apply here. We have to have uniformity and a sense of single standard for all Commissions and the new systems that we are setting up. I would not go to the lower levels, but the higher levels, the staff of the Commission must be subject to some vetting. They may not necessarily come to this House, but there should be some procedure for them to be vetted, so that competence matters at this point. Also, those other things that the Constitution has talked about, namely, regional and ethnic balancing, must be considered so that we can have a Service that we will all be proud of. We can say that the senior officers have met the criteria of regional and ethnic balance and have competently and competitively been recruited. We are also saying that the Director-General himself or herself should be a person who has undergone the rigorous process of vetting through the relevant Departmental Committee of this House. If we get it right with the staff in this Bill, then we will have a very good Service that will take us another level. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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