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    "id": 698006,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/698006/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2926,
        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "Those directors must be taught how to mobilise resources locally and internationally, in order to make those parastatals run. When we talk about good governance, it is about transformational leadership. You transform the institution and take it to the next level. It is shocking when some people are appointed to head institutions and then after some time, they run them down. Such kind of directors must be expelled or disciplined by those institutions. They must not be appointed ever to run any other institution. If we do that, we will surely bring discipline and uniformity in our institutions. When we talk about a profit-oriented parastatal, we really mean it. Whatever we invest in a public body, we expect outputs. Outputs must benefit the public. Most of those institutions are run using public money. Members of the public expect good services and profit. They expect those institutions to generate some income for the country. On professionalism, directors must be appointed according to their professional qualifications, so that they can take their experiences and knowledge to our corporations. We should not use politics and tribalism to appoint directors because we will spoil our institutions. We should appoint people who have retired from active service, but who are professionals. Such people will take back their knowledge and experiences to our institutions. When you pick up a young man with neither experience nor academic qualifications and appoint him a director, you are misusing him. Directors must have rich experiences in the areas of operations of a State corporation. We want people who bring change in our institutions. We should open up the proposed institution to everybody so that even people in the private sector can be brought in, if they so wish to join. The proposed institute should be a training institution. It is not a must that one must end up being a director once you are trained there. One can acquire knowledge, which he can apply in his private organisation. I want to request Hon. Ochieng to open up that institution to both the Government and the public, so as to train anybody who wants to be a good director. The major reason of having that institution is to instil good governance to our directors. Good governance should be practised by everybody. With those few remarks, I support."
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