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    "id": 698033,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Chebet",
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        "legal_name": "Susan Kipketer Chebet",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I rise to support this Bill. It has come at the right time. We all know how our organisations are run. If we are given an opportunity to train and give more information and knowledge to the directors so that once they are appointed to those positions, they take care of our investments in those organisations, it will be good. There is a lot of investment in organizations. We put a lot of money and human resource in them. If we do not have the right people to run them, we will lose. We already know how much we have lost in terms of investments that we have put in those organisations. There are organisations that have collapsed due to poor management. I am sure when we have that Institute, it will train our directors to practise professionalism and good governance when they are running the organisations. Most directors have always been appointed on political grounds. We all know what political grounds entail. We just appoint people and rarely look at their qualifications. It is just recently that we started looking at qualifications. Previously, directors were appointed regardless of the qualifications and experience they had. This means they would always run down the institutions. The issue of corruption is thriving in our organisations because of lack of integrity and scrutiny of our directors. We have performance contracting, but some of the directors may not be required to sign performance contract forms. If they do not sign performance contract, then it means they do not have any responsibility at the end of the period that they have been given to run those organisations. We need business-oriented directors. They need to know that they have been appointed to run serious businesses in those organisations, so that they do not collapse. The organisations which are supposed to make money should do so. We have cited many companies in Kenya that were supposed to make profits, but have failed and now the Government is bailing them out due to poor management. The training should sensitise the directors who are going to be appointed to look at the organisations they are going to run as business entities so that they can make profits and take care of both human and financial resources. We know of organisations which have a bloated wage bill. It is because they are not sensitive in terms of recruitment. They recruit relatives and people requested by politicians. This means they will employ people without looking at the wage bill. If the wage bill is higher than the money they make, it means they are going to incur losses and they are going to have a bloated human resource. A director should have a wide knowledge of management and be of high integrity. With those few remarks, I support the Bill."
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