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    "content": "in the water sector. He also showed great comprehension on the issues of public financial management, procurement and human resource management. He is also Chairman of the Peace Caravan that covers Baringo, Laikipia, Tana River and West Pokot and he is able to show the role that water distribution could play in providing peace. During our interrogation of Lopoyetum, we did not receive any adverse report on him. But we put him to task on the fact that as head of currency, it was during his tenure that the controversial and opaque tender was awarded to De La Rue Company. We, however, wished to confirm that the award of tender for currency printing is actually the role of the Ministry of Finance and he was not individually responsible for the opaque nature of that tender. We also put the nominee to task on his involvement in the development of the title “Times Tower”. We also found out that he was not involved in the procurement process for the land on which Times Tower sits. We, therefore, highly recommend Mr. James Teko Lopoyetum to be the Principal Secretary for water. Hon. Deputy Speaker, with the second nominee, Mr. Lerisian Lesiyampe, our nominee for Environment and Natural Resources, he was born in Samburu and went to different schools in Samburu County. He did his “A” level at Kabarnet High School. He holds a BA degree in political science from University of Nairobi and MBA in strategy management from the same university and he is currently a PhD candidate finalist at Methodist University. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). He had previously served as the Director of Finance and Administration at Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). He displayed great commitment to his work and great achievement in the posts he has held. He had shown that in the last two years as head of KNH, he was able to steer away the staff of KNH from nine strikes that the workers in the health sector were involved in. We were greatly impressed by his understanding and comprehension of the area of natural resource and environment. We are pleased to state that he showed commitment to the establishment of policies and legislation in wildlife, wetlands and also in looking at staffing matters in the sectors that he was proposed for. The Committee was highly impressed by his understanding of how to fight corruption. He promised to lead by example and he gave us an example that he tells his juniors, that: “If the director is not eating, who are you to eat?” So, we were really impressed by his practical approach to the fight against corruption. We highly recommend the candidate for the position of Principal Secretary. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the third nominee the Committee vetted was Amb. Dr. Richard Titus Ekai who was born in 1967, in Turkana County. He went to school in Lodwar Secondary School and St. Patrick, Iten. He joined Moi University and holds a PhD in physics from Hannover in Germany. He has MBA in Strategic Management; MPh in Physics, all from Moi University. The nominee is currently Kenya’s Ambassador to the Kingdoms of Thailand and Cambodia and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The nominee is also currently the dean of diplomatic Corps in Thailand and also holds a Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear, which he was awarded in 2011. The nominee impressed the Committee on his knowledge of the mining sector, having been the ambassador for Kenya to Thailand. It was our view that he was “incubated” in Thailand to come and perform the task of Principal Secretary--- ( Inaudible )"
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