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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "content": "trade, the PS in the State Department relating to Devolved Government and the PS of the National Treasury. It is generally agreed that, as much as possible, let us remove Government from the business of businesses as it were. In my view, if we have almost half of the Board being Government, we are going to end up with a very pliant Board that can easily be micro-managed from elsewhere and whose decisions might not be independent and may be as a result of something that has been decided before-hand. The method of the qualification and nomination of those four other members is, in my view, very vague. As we go the Third Reading, one of the things that we will necessarily have to do is to clearly identify who those other four members are. We know that if the aspirations of our national growth and development are to be met, we need to inject more vibrancy and relevancy in the private sector. We have come to a point where, if we want businesses to grow, we need to identify parts of the private sector that are driving this country forward and be specific in this Bill that those four nominees have to come from the private sector and the method of appointing them to sit in the Board be left to those private sector bodies. This is something that we will come up with in the amendments."
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