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    "id": 565802,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Langat",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 384,
        "legal_name": "Benjamin Kipkirui Langat",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. She has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Nairobi, which she obtained in 2002. She has a Bachelor of Education Degree from Egerton University, which she obtained in 1994 and she is currently doing a PhD from Cebu Doctors University in Philippines. She has a wealth of experience in human resource management, having worked in the same department for almost two decades. She is the Acting Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) Secretary, a position she has held since March 2014. She has been acting in that position for more than one year and is substantively the Deputy Commission Secretary at SRC as of today, but she has been acting as the Commission Secretary since March 2014. Prior to this, she was a Human Resource (HR) and Administration Manager at the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) for five years and worked in the same capacity for two-and-a- half years at the Industrial Development Bank (IDB). She has also worked as a Human Resource Consultant for Hawkins and Associates, a HR firm, the Standard Chartered Bank as well as being a teacher with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) briefly when she started her employment in 1994 or thereabout. On experience and qualifications, the Committee noted that the nominee exhibited impressive knowledge of topical issues touching on human resource management, and has the requisite abilities, qualifications and experience to serve as the Commission Secretary to the SRC. That is according to the SRC Act, which requires someone with experience in finance or human resource issues because they will be dealing with issues of rewarding State officers and other public servants. Having conducted approval hearings for the nominee pursuant to Article 118 of the Constitution, the SRC Act, the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act, the Standing Orders and other relevant statutes, the Committee recommends that pursuant to Section 16 (1) of the SRC Act, 2011, the National Assembly approves the nomination of Mrs. Anne Rwamba Gitau for appointment by the SRC as the Secretary to the SRC. My Committee is thankful to the offices of the Speaker and the Clerk of the National Assembly for the logistical and technical support accorded to it during our sittings. I wish to express my appreciation to the Hon. Members of my Committee who sacrificed their time to participate in the activities of the Committee and the preparation of this Report. Having said that, I would like to add that the SRC has been established to set the salaries of State officers and regularly review those salaries. We noted that this is a Commission which outsources its entire mandate. They just remain in the office to co-ordinate. If you look at their budget, 70 per cent of the funds are paid to consultants. That is why we put the nominee to task to tell us whether this country can do without this Commission. You cannot outsource 80 per cent of your mandate and continue existing as a Commission. They are spending almost Kshs1 billion on an exercise called job evaluation. All the same, it is a constitutional commission and it has the right to exist. The nominee is qualified. She has the required experience and has been acting in that position for close to one-and-a-half years. I wish that the House does approve this Report, so that she substantively takes over that position and helps the Commission to move forward and, possibly, help it not to continue outsourcing its mandate but execute its mandate internally. 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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