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    "id": 697967,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/697967/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shidiye",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2070,
        "legal_name": "Mohamed Muktar Shidiye",
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    "content": "We ask ourselves why such people have been appointed. We have people who have been appointed chairmen of parastatals and have run them down. When they move to other parastatals, the same thing happens. They become directors in other parastatals, they attend board meetings from one parastatal to another throughout, yet they do not add any value. It is very unfortunate. When somebody is appointed and is not adding value to the Kenyan people, the best thing is for him or her to exit. Sometimes I believe in what Chinese do. If you are corrupt, they will not spare you. They will kill you. They have a firing squad to finish you for good. Sometimes this is very important especially when you know that a parastatal is a lifeline for the children of this country. Somebody wants to mess the parastatal just because he or she wants to make kitu kidogo orkubwa out of it while the rest of the Kenyans are suffering. Time has come for us to have a paradigm shift in our thinking. There must be a radical surgery in the way we run public institutions. Some public institutions have been turned to private ones. It is as if an organisation is owned by an individual. It is unfortunate to see the Kenya Co-operative Creameries (KCC) going down. Banks owned by the Government make losses and once they are sold to a private entity, within a short time, there is a turnaround and they begin to make money. Where is the problem? When it is public, citizens lose, but when it is private, people do the right thing. This Bill is going to bring sanity into corporate governance. It is going to bring checks and balances. It will also change the thinking of Kenyans. Time has come for Kenyans to think deeply. If you look at the number of parastatals that we have in this country, every day their numbers are growing. You will realise that some Bills will be brought here that create certain institutions. Once they are created, they do not add value. Time has come for us to change our thinking. The other thing which we need to address is corruption in these organisations. Corruption is like cancer. It is eating into the fabric of the Kenyan society. Time has come for that to be checked. On the issue of appointments, we must look at gender, regional balance, profession and every facet, so that it represents the face of Kenya. We have bodies where we have people from the same family. For instance, when the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) was investigating universities, they found that in one university, the Vice-Chancellor and the chairman of the cleaners come from one community. They also speak the same language yet we 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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