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    "id": 496958,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "Under Clause 28 of this Bill there is established something called the National Water Harvesting and Storage Authority. If you look at the membership of the National Water Harvesting and Storage Authority and you look at the membership of the Water Resources Regulatory Authority, they are exactly the same because they have the chairpersons, of course, appointed by the President, then they have got Principal Secretary for Water, Principal Secretary for land, Principal Secretary for Finance and four members appointed by the Cabinet Secretary. So, I ask myself, these two authorities are created within the same Bill, but their functions and membership is the same, so when shall they sit as Water Resources Regulatory Authority and as National Water Harvesting and Storage Authority? So, we are duplicating and I think the Committee must really look into this and propose amendments. In my view, we must expand the functions of the Water Resources Regulatory Authority to encompass those that are under National Water Harvesting and Storage Authority to create one authority to handle all the functions and everything that is under those two authorities. Instead of creating two separate authorities, two separate boards and two separate CEOs--- These CEOs are supposed to be hired and fired by the Board. Hence, there is a problem there. If you look at the other examples of the various Commissions that we have, you realise that CEOs of Commissions and Boards have a lot of problems. In fact, they are fired at will everytime there is a problem within an establishment, it is the CEO who takes the flak because the Board can very quickly sit and even if it was its problem, it would decide to fire the CEO. I think the CEOs must be appointed on the recommendation of the Board, but by approval of Parliament so that even when they are to be fired, then Parliament also has to be involved so that we do not expose the CEOs of serious establishments to their Boards."
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