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"content": "Housing and Urban Development. She appeared in person before the Committee on 19th June, 2013. On Tuesday, 11th June, the Chair communicated to the House that this Report should be tabled in the House in fourteen days. We are actually under that obligation to table the same and, of course, debate it as requested. Hon. Speaker, we did only one meeting to vet Madam Mariamu El Maawy. The Report that I am going to present here has no dissenting voice. Therefore, it was unanimously agreed to. Madam Mariamu El Maawy is a lady who, at her early stages of her life, ventured into a very hard subject of architecture, when even men who are inside and outside this House could not venture into it at that time. Indeed, this is one of her strengths that enabled her to make such hard decisions at that very early age. She has done a bachelors degree from the University of Nairobi. Hon. Speaker, Madam El Maawy has finished her Architecture from the University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban. In fact, she is currently doing research in completing her course for masters. El Maawy has been heading a number of organizations, both private and public. Ms. El Maawy is now pursuing a paper on cultural and contemporary architecture in hot cities, including Kenya. Hon. Speaker, Sir, we also looked at her masterly of the work or the subject she is supposed to undertake. Having a background in architecture, she was able to convince the Committee that her day-to-day work, right from the time she started her work, was based on land; both in terms of planning, acquisition and making designs for the development of land. Therefore, that is a subject that is at her fingertips and that is what she has been practising all through. She had also to go through quite a number of questions so that we could prove that she is material worth being at the helm or as Chief Executive Officer at the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development. Hon. Speaker, we looked at her academic qualifications, employment records, potential conflict of interest and found none. We also looked at the knowledge of the relevant subject which I have already alluded to earlier and the overall suitability of the position, including tax compliance and integrity. She benefitted from the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) and so far, she has completed repayment of the loans. Therefore, she is 100 per cent compliant and understands her mandate of trying to help other needy cases. On tax compliance, she has completely complied as of now, unless in future. On integrity issues, she used to sit on the board of Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission. Therefore, you can understand that her integrity is quite high; it is not like that of Justice Ringera who was pushed out. She was not questioned on that issue. On adverse affidavits, the Committee did not receive any adverse affidavits against Mariamu El Maawy. She had also gone through Public Service Commission (PSC) and that is where she was recommended for appointment to the President and thereby the President proposed her name to this Parliament. She had, therefore, followed the whole due process."
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