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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Duba",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Roba Duba Bonaya",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The other point where an hon. Member contributed on Section 29 is about the dissolution of the council. I concur with him that there is no need to dissolve the council. That power should not vest with the Cabinet Secretary. If there is an officer or an institution, council or an institute which conducts itself in a manner not becoming, there are other procedures to hold them to account. We have the Kenya Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Efficiency Monitoring Unit (EMU). All those agencies can take care of any misconduct on the part of officers of the Authority. There is no need to give the Cabinet Secretary sweeping powers by a stroke of a pen to dissolve such an important authority. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would want also to appreciate the database that the authority is likely to keep. It is important and we have been lucky. We have been having accreditation in terms of order of merit. For example, Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) has been classifying qualification on the basis of ABCDE. It does not show for many years. I do not know whether there have been any revision of those qualifications to show whether grade C is any better than A. At one time, it was decided that this matter be left, so that whoever intends to employ a person can make a determination on his or her own. These are our fears. It is the absence of such an Authority that would have, otherwise, guided us. Some institutions have orders of merit ascending while others have merit of descending. Therefore, the Authority will bring uniformity. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in East Africa here - Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda - if we cannot have an institution that can accredit qualifications obtained within the Community, we have serious shortcomings in our system. Therefore, this Authority is likely to be very important and I support save for a possible amendment at the Third Reading. Thank you very much. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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