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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "My apologies, Hon. Speaker. I meant Chapter 15 Commissions. This is not a Chapter 15 Commission. The other problem I have is that there are very many Kenyans who are unemployed. Why do we pluck people who are already employed and put them on boards? This is a problem that runs across this country. There are people today who chair more than one board and yet the problem of unemployment in this country is real. The level of youth unemployment is a problem that should concern us. Some of these people who chair more than one board are people who have held very senior public positions. Many of them are septuagenarians - people who are in their 70s. Do they even have the energy to chair more than one board? They are there. You know them. Hon. Speaker, I cannot support a Motion like this one. Even as we do this, let us ask ourselves what we want to do with these boards. As we speak, there are key boards in this country which do not have a Board of Directors. One of them is the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). In this period of volatility, when we are having problems related to Brexit, one wonders how we are going to deal with problems of financial volatility and policy issues. I expected my friend Benjamin Langat to tell us something about CBK as he moved this Motion. That is because the CBK falls under him. It has been without a Board of Directors for three years now."
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