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    "id": 700981,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/700981/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 130,
        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
        "slug": "dalmas-otieno"
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Of course, we support these names. All these persons have the basic qualifications according to the law. However, we are talking about the CBK. This is the CBK! After striking it well and getting a person of integrity and the highest level of intellectual capacity to be Governor, how do you after waiting for a whole year, give him “C” grade board of directors? It is the CBK. We are talking of our “A” and “B” plus grades for these kinds of positions. It is not only in terms of academic performance, but also in terms of work experience. In this Report, we talk of wealth of experience. You do not see the wealth in the CV. The wealth is not here. The wealth is relevant in the monetary policy areas. We need to see wealth in financial policy areas in terms of directorships relevant in handling the entire economy and in terms of having published in monetary and financial journals. This is so that one can prove to us that one has the knowledge of the Kenyan economy at their fingertips. When a crisis arises, one should know what issues to isolate and bring forward. It is not that we are opposing. We are accepting, but we wish you were able to do a better job. You are capable of doing a better job after waiting for a whole year. We thought you were hunting well the way you hunted for the Governor. However, you have now proposed average Kenyans to handle the most critical institution. I am getting afraid everyday as we look at appointments. Very soon, we may not find capable Kenyans accessing these important positions because decisions are made on the basis of what the person being taken there is going to do for individuals. It is not what he is going to do for Kenya. Kenya is in competition with the rest of the world. The rest of the world takes their best to the Central Bank organ. Have we taken our best? Not that they do not qualify, they are qualified according to our law, but they are not our best. If you want to say these are your best, then your best is too average. This is Kenya. Kenyans have been educated. Kenyans know these policy areas. There are Kenyans who have published globally on monetary and financial policy issues. Why do we derogate our CBK to mediocrity and propose to appoint “C” grade personnel? It is not that any of them is not qualified. They are qualified and they can perform. Maybe they can perform better in terms of what they will do for Benjamin Langat. I wish we were able to do better because we can do better. We should insist that we always do better particularly for certain organs of governance that will affect our political economy. I support with great disappointment."
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