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    "id": 698025,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Odanga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Geoffrey Makokha Odanga",
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    "content": "of them were appointed based on their ethnic backgrounds or political correctness or other crude ways of appointment. However, that kind of institute to train directors on how to manage our organizations will cure the problems that we have had in the past. This will also affect our universities. Recently, we had a crisis at Moi University and we saw people clinging onto particular individuals. The reason is that they want to use others as cash cows. They want to divert funds that are meant for the development of educational facilities and research to financing activities of certain individuals, including campaigns for political positions. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support this Bill because of the issue of capacity building and inculcating of values, knowledge, skills and attitudes that directors will need for them to get their job right. Before they get into directorship, they need to be qualified. The institute we are proposing will be best placed to conduct that training. It will be empowered to register and regulate the conduct and operations of the directors so that we do not have, in leadership positions, people who neither know what the organizations stand for nor care about the public. It is those kinds of people that we are targeting to get out of our institutions. There is the idea of issuing certificates annually to the members. That is good as it is a way of ensuring that there is quality. It is possible that one gets a certificate or is registered as a member and in years to come, one is devoid of the values that were initially required of them. The fact that they will be vetted, assessed and certificates issued to them annually will help because it will make them stay on course. They will then avoid the malpractices that they have been involved in before. It will stop that poor, archaic habit of appointing people simply because they belong to one’s community. It will stop the habit of appointing friends or people who have corrupted the appointing authorities. Lastly, the establishment of a disciplinary committee to discipline those directors who will have been found not to toe the line – this amounts to professional negligence and misconduct - is good. Wrong-doers must be punished for their misdeeds. They should be punished for not doing the job they were appointed to do. I would wish that this Bill goes further to spell out the penalties for those who are found to be culpable. With those few remarks, I support."
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