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    "id": 663461,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "I have a concern as to the composition of the Board of the KeNHA. I have seen many instances, when we are composing boards, we allow bodies that have no recognitions in law to be nominating entities. I have no idea why every time we make laws in this House we try to recognise this body called “Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA)”. As far as I am concerned, the KEPSA is not recognised in any law. The KEPSA is a gathering of like-minded people who have common interest. In fact, it can be there today and not be there tomorrow. When we say, for example, that the KEPSA will nominate a member to the KeNHA Board, what happens if it decides to disband tomorrow? What happens to that nominee? It is important that we do not get carried away by pressure groups. As it stands now, the KEPSA is nothing more than a pressure group. I am a member of the KEPSA but I know that it is no more than a pressure group. If you look at the whole spectrum of our laws, you will find that it is nowhere. I have even talked to members of the KEPSA and asked them why they do not want to propose a law so that they can be recognised so that when we say--- For example, where is the dichotomy when we are nominating one of their members? It is a whole continuum. Where do you draw the line on who is the private sector and who is not? Does the fact that you are a Member of the KEPSA make you to be more in the private sector than a private sector practitioner who chooses not to be in the KEPSA? I will be proposing an amendment to remove the allocation that has been given to the KEPSA to nominate a member into the Board of the KeNHA. I notice that the Board of the Kenya National Secondary Roads Authority (KeNSRA) under Section XIII of this Bill actually seems to be alive to this fact. It has, instead of the KEPSA coming up with a nominee, nominated a member from the Kenya Institute of Physical Planners to the Board. Why are we not allowing Kenya Institute of Physical Planners? Are we saying that in the highways in the national trunk roads we do not need physical planners to help us in building our road network? That is an area that we have to look into."
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