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    "id": 676606,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A. B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Bill because it should have been here in the 10th Parliament. Just like the way we passed the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval Act 2011) - it is now used by this House in the vetting process of the National Executive appointees; both the Cabinet and Principal Secretaries and other constitutional office holders who require National Assembly’s approval. What is happening in the counties is like a one man show. This is because County Executives or County Ministers are appointed without guidelines or provision in law. They are brought to the assembly and what they do is guillotine. I am sure in all the 47 counties half of the ministers in county assemblies are people who have never gone to school. They have no degrees, some of them have serious issues of integrity under Chapter Six, others are not tax complaint, others have not repaid the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) loans and some have their finger prints as criminals. Just because they come from the same clan as the governor, they are neighbours, they paid or their community voted for the governor, they are given big positions in the county assemblies. We have no problem with that, but they should vet them the way we vet Members of the National Executive to, at least, make sure that the nominees have the required education qualifications which can be verified by the Commission for Higher Education. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) writes to the National Assembly on the status of a nominee. This should also apply to county governments. If the person being nominated for a position of the CEC has any criminal record, the Director of Criminal Investigation (DCI) must provide that information. If the person being vetted by the county assembly as the CEC member for finance is involved in money laundering, tax evasion or is non-compliant in paying taxes, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) must give that information. That is why I think this Bill is timely. Never again will a governor appoint somebody of opaque academic credentials, a criminal, or somebody involved in economic crimes, tax evasion or money laundering to run our dockets. That is why you have seen the reshuffles in the 47 county governments are at the whims of one person. If I give you the example of the counties in northern Kenya, most of the people who are CEC members are people from the Diaspora. They are people who were taxi drivers in London. Some of them present papers of qualifications which cannot be verified. So, you are making somebody a CEC member for finance at the county government and he does not even The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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