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"content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have a Statement on the status of the appointment of the chairperson and commissioners of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) that was sought by hon. Stephen Mutinda Mule, Member for Matungulu, pursuant to Standing Order No.44(2)(c). I wish to give the highlights of what has transpired so far, in the appointment process of the TSC chairperson and commissioners. A selection panel, chaired by Dr. Kamunge was constituted by the President in consultation with the Prime Minister as was the requirement then. In line with statutory provisions, the panel initially advertised, selected and forwarded three names for the position of chairperson and five candidates as members of the Commission as at March, 2013. The three names were; Mr. Kiragu wa Magochi, Mr. Simon Musyimi Kavisi and Mr. Ismail Hassan. They were shortlisted and forwarded to the President for the position of the chairperson. The President picked Kiragu wa Magochi and forwarded his name to Parliament for vetting. However, Parliament rejected the nominee on the account of lack of merit. Further, out of the five names submitted, which were Cleopas Tirop, Dr. Salome Wanjiku Gichura, Francis Ochieng’, Aden Sheikh Abdullahi and James Kahindi Ziro, who were interviewed for the position of members of the Commission, three names, namely, Francis Ochieng’, Aden Sheikh Abdullahi and James Kahindi Ziro were picked by the President and forwarded to the Tenth Parliament for vetting. Parliament approved the nominees - because I had the pleasure to serve in that Parliament - for these positions but the nomination was later overturned by an appeal at the High Court; HCC Petition No.8 of 2013. The court in its ruling stated that the action by the President was irregular, unlawful and in so far as they were concerned, the list had to be resubmitted to Parliament with new names that were in the previous list. As you may notice, this process has been extensively litigated in court under Petition No.8 of 2013, No.34 of 2013 and No.370 of 2013. Following this litigation process, on 13th September, 2013, His Excellency the President, hon. Uhuru Kenyatta, forwarded the following names to Parliament for vetting:- Kiragu wa Magochi as the chairperson. His name was resubmitted for the second time. We had Albert Ekirapa as a member; Jecinta Anyango as a Member; James M. Nkoroi as a member and Mohamed M. Mwenyipembe as a member. The Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology of this Eleventh Parliament, interviewed the nominees and in its report to Parliament made a recommendation of rejecting all the nominees for various reasons. The report of the Committee was subsequently placed before the whole House and adopted and the position of the Committee was upheld. While adopting the report of the Committee, observation was made that the panel led by Dr. Kamunge had failed in its various attempts to recruit for the Commission a chairperson and members and in the same breadth, the Committee on Education, Research and Technology recommended that a fresh selection panel be reconstituted to undertake and finalize the process."
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