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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof) Nyikal",
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    "content": "extremely important. The procedure we have followed under the Special Sitting; that we have very limited time and we are hurrying is not appropriate. All along it was clear to the Government that these positions were vacant. The calendar of Parliament is extremely clear and everybody knows it. This is something we should look at. What we are doing now, to a large extent, is guillotine. We do not have enough time to look at the issues that are related to each nominee. So, we are taking them as a group making comments on one or two and passing it. That is not proper. That we have this particular lot, people who are very educated and technically qualified is important. However, the problem in this country is not the technical competence of the people. The problem in this country is on integrity that is quite often very difficult to realise. We even had some problems in the last session we had. In future, we should not do this. Even this morning when we started, we had other issues that were brought in for a special session when we would have had time to look at the reports that were laid in the morning, and then discuss them now. We took time to discuss other issues although they were in the Gazette Notice. What this country should be extremely sensitive to, is not technical competence of the people, but the issue of integrity. We know that there was a report from the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) in one case but it was corrected. Those are areas we want to look at very keenly. I will support the three gentlemen whose names have actually been put before us because from the work of the Committee, they appear competent. However, on the case of Mr. Ng’ang’a, the area of petroleum is actually riddled with corruption, particularly at the depot. This is one area we have not looked at. That gentleman looks competent and he should look at corruption in the petroleum industry."
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