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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, the Bill will ensure good governance. It portrays the correct considerations which should be properly articulated before a relevant committee that shall perform the vetting exercise. When there is a clear-cut criterion; how do you get your nominee? What should be the academic or other advantageous qualifications required? If we had this, we would not have issues like what happened – a very ugly scene – of Dr. Juma, a lady who was shown outright gender discrimination because there were no clear-cut criteria. You cannot be qualified in academics and everything else, yet they use the word “suitability”. This Bill defines what the word “suitability” means. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Bill gives the committee a chance to perform due diligence. The due diligence will also apply when Chapter 10 of the Constitution is observed. There is need to consult the relevant authorities or persons. The committee has powers to summon any person to appear before it. The committee has been given quasi- judicial powers. It can summon, force attendance and compel production of important documents needed so that if, for example, the person you want to employ went to work in Uganda or Tanzania and disappeared from there, having stolen and served a jail term, anyone with any document or information may be compelled to produce it, so that we have the correct people we need. We need people who can perform and take counties and the country to a different level of development. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am particularly delighted to see that the Bill describes what a “Money Bill” is. For avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Bill may be construed as providing for dealing with and describes what Money Bills are. For a long time, the Senate has been frustrated. We have come up with Bills as required by the Constitution, but we have been told that we are dealing with a Money Bill. Therefore, we cannot bring it up, or it has to originate from the National Assembly. This Bill gives a very clear-cut criterion about what is and what is not a Money Bill. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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