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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo- Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, having said that, I just want to raise some issues that I have noticed. First, I want to laud the Minister for entrenching the issue of openness and competitiveness in this Bill, and also including the private and public sectors in those jobs. I have noticed in the past that there are very good jobs that are advertised and, kind of, just left open for the public sector and not the private sector. Yet, we have many Kenyans in the private sector who have very brilliant brains. So, that is very good. That is also to further the private-public sector collaboration. However, I want to indicate that I am concerned about the provision which is made for appointing the panel that will appoint the Commissioners. The reason is that if you actually look at all the other Commissions that we have appointed, there is a very clear procedure. You do not just get persons from the public and from the private sector. That is part of the openness and transparency. If we leave it this way, what is there to stop me from picking all of my friends, as a leader, to go and sit in the panel? After that, they will appoint only persons whom they deem friendly to them. We must know who is sitting in that panel and they must be persons who have gone through a process. So, I agree with Dr. Eseli that, that process must be open and clear, just like in the other Bills. Indeed, if Dr. Eseli does not bring an amendment to that effect, I will bring it."
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