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    "id": 366610,
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    "content": "The Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade is one of the 12 Departmental Committees of National Assembly established under Standing Order No.216 and mandated to inter alia vet and report on all appointments where the Constitution or any law requires the National Assembly to approve. The Committee deals specifically with public finance, monetary policies, public debt, financial institutions, investment and divestiture policies, pricing policies, banking, insurance, population, revenue policies, planning, national development, trade, tourism promotion and management, commerce and industry. Under the current governance, the Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade oversees the ministries and all the commissions, independent offices and parastatals domiciled under them. That is, the National Treasury, Industrialization and Enterprise Development, East African Affairs, Commerce and Tourism, Devolution and Planning. Like any other Departmental Committee, we have a membership of 29 members and the list is there on the report. Members can check that. Pursuant to Article 155(3)(b) of the Constitution of Kenya, the President is required to nominate a person for appointment as a Principal Secretary from among the persons recommended by the Public Service Commission and with the approval of the National Assembly, appoint them as Principal Secretaries. On 11th June, 2013, you did inform the House that His Excellency the President had nominated the following persons amongst others to be considered for appointment as Principal Secretaries:- 1. Dr. Kamau Thugge - National Treasury 2. Mr. John Konchella - Devolution 3. Dr. Wilson Songa - Industrialization and Enterprise Development 4. Dr. Ibrahim M. Mohammed - Commerce and Tourism 5. Eng. Peter Oganga Magiti - Planning"
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