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    "id": 64104,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nyagah",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Nthiga Nyagah",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to confirm that it is true there are many acting heads of departments at the New KCC. This happened because in the last few months, several of them were found not to be capable of running the departments. In some departments, which they were running, there was misappropriation of property of the company. Some were found, therefore, to have had problems in running their departments. In some cases, things under their control were found to have disappeared. Therefore, those people were either suspended and some resigned on their own. That is why we have many who are in acting capacity. The Board is in the process of replacing those ones and interviews have almost been completed. That is the explanation as to why there are about four or so managers in acting capacity. In so far as the Managing Director is concerned, it is true that the Board instituted a programme, and names of three people, through a process that included Deloitte and Touche Consultants, were brought to me to choose a Managing Director from them. As that was happening, we were working with the Office of the President. There is a special committee that reclassifies parastatals. The Managing Director of KCC accompanied with sales of over Kshs6 billion, was earning a salary of Kshs570,000 while his compatriots elsewhere were earning millions. So, after five to seven months, I was successful in getting the Office of the President to reclassify and agree that the Managing Director of such a big company; the largest in the region, should be paid a salary of Kshs1.1 million, particularly as we were going into competition and would be privatized. To privatize a company of this size required that we have a man or woman who is competitive. The heads of departments would be earning Kshs700,000. The people currently being recruited are competitive enough to enable this company to be the leader in the region. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, early December, I rejected the three nominees mainly because of the new reclassification. The best on the list was earning slightly less than Kshs300,000 a month. I would have to increase the salary almost fourfold. The advertisements have been done and 108 people applied. Yesterday, the Board was given a shortlist of 15 slated for interview on Monday. By mid next week, there will be three names that will be brought to me of the caliber of the Managing Director I have described; a person who understands the grassroots and also management."
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