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    "content": "three commissioners because we still have five commissioners who are still serving up to end of June. After the advertisement, it was very competitive in the sense that there were 29 eminent Kenyans who applied for the position of chairperson and five persons were shortlisted for the interview. For the position of commissioners, there were 209 Kenyans who applied and the panel shortlisted 16 persons for the interview. In our Committee, I want to state here categorically that we had issues that were raised by Kenyans and we sat down to address those issues and concerns. After looking at them, we took a vote. The vote was whether or not we should continue to interview the people whose names were tabled in this honourable House. When we took the vote, we had four Members for and one Member dissenting. For the first time, I want to make it very clear that, as the Chairman of the Committee, I dissented. However, in the spirit of the minority having the say and the majority having their way, that is what we did. We moved on to interview the people who had been shortlisted for the position of the chairperson and those for the position of members. For the purpose of record so that Kenyans understand why I dissented, it is not because I felt these people are not qualified. We did not have any issues with them. I want to indicate here three issues: On the position of the chairperson, there were five Kenyans who were interviewed. Allow me to read out their names for the benefit of hon. Members. In position one, we had Dr. Lydia Nzomo who scored 80.3 per cent, second was Mr. Kiragu Wa Magochi who scored 73.3 per cent, third was Mr. Simon Kavisi with 70.1 per cent, fourth was Mr. Mbarak Said Twahir who scored 69.3 per cent and fifth was Mr. Ismael Bulo Hassan who scored 61 per cent. In the report that was presented to the Committee, one Dr. Lydia Nzomo and Mr. Mbarak Said Twahir were not recommended or forwarded to the two Principals. The information that was given to the Committee is that they were under investigations by KACC. That is a report that we did not get so that, as a Committee, we would address the matter and understand the circumstances and reasons that led to their names not being forwarded. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my feeling and understanding then was that if those were the reasons; that somebody is under investigations, for stopping those people then, we would be setting a bad precedence as a House. That, if one is under investigation, then that person is not fit to be appointed to any position. Take note that one Dr. Lydia Nzomo is the CEO of the Kenya Institute of Education which will soon change to Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development. That was one issue that I felt was not good. At the end of the day, among the five who were interviewed, the three names were forwarded to the two Principals. The second issue that I felt required clarification - and which we unfortunately did not get - was that among the people who were shortlisted for interview for the positions of the five commissioners, in position one we had Mr. Cleopas Tirop with 81.4 per cent, position two was Dr. Salome Gichura with 78.7 per cent. Number three, we have Julius Jwan with 71.8 per cent. Number four was Fredrick Haga Ochieng with 71.6 per cent and number five was one Adam Sheikh Abdullahi with 70.3 per cent. Number six was Sadia Abdi Kontoma with 69.7 per cent and Mr. Kahindi Ziro James at number seven with 68.6 per cent."
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