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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill. Looking at the Memorandum of Objectives and Reasons for this Bill, I am persuaded to believe that this is a very important Bill. This is because the Bill provides for the Objects of the Bill as being: a) a general report on the values and principles of public service; b) public participation in the promotion of the values, principles and policy making of the public service; and, c) reporting on the status of the promotion of the values and principles of the public service. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a very important Bill, especially in view of the tight corner that the country finds itself in now. If this Bill had already become law in this country, the kind of annoying, irritating and nauseating pronouncements that come from the public service by way of promoting public servants in this country and appointing public servants would not be the case. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Speaker Emeritus, Francis Xavier ole Kaparo, the Chairman of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC), has also conceded that the appointments and promotions in public service leave a lot to be desired. When you look at the entire public service – and we have spoken on this very many times – appointments and promotions are skewed deliberately to leave out 40 communities from participating in matters of governance and administration of our beloved Republic of Kenya. They are skewed to favour only two communities. Whenever we have said this in public fora, we have been accused of hate speech. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am glad that today, enjoying the immunity of this House, I cannot be accused of hate speech. It is wrong to heap public appointments in the hands of only one or two communities, unless we do not want to build a Republic called Kenya. We want to build fiefdoms where whoever is the highest ranking from a particular tribe, then happens to become the President, then that would be the way to go. We must all join hands and continuously insist that the issue of ethnic and regional balancing, as provided for in the Constitution, is observed in public appointments and promotions. I understand that this week, the National Assembly is vetting the appointees to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). The two people that are being vetted are none other than Ms. Winfred Guchu, the former Executive Director of TNA political Party and Mr. Kipng’etich arap Korir. Even if these two Kenyans – whose credentials I have no reasons to doubt – fit the bill, given that Ms. Guchu was the Executive Director of the President’s party and that Mr. Kipng’etich arap Korir, shares the same DNA with the Deputy President, then we, as Kenyans, have reasons to be afraid that the independence of the JSC will be compromised. I hope that the National Assembly will rise to its name and ensure that these two names do not go through, so that the President is given an opportunity to appoint other people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I know that my younger brother, Sen. Njoroge, the nominated Senator, is wondering what I am saying, given that in the same week, former Ministers Mr. Chris Okemo, and Dr. Noah Wekesa, received appointments. I agree that those are appointments, but they cannot be used to be presumed to be achieving the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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