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    "content": "Clause 17 states that the Cabinet Secretary shall designate an appropriate administrative unit. This is the bigger devil. In this clause, the Cabinet Secretary will micro-manage the committee. He is the one who will give them a secretariat. He will also appoint an administration unit in the Ministry relating to matters to extracting industry to serve as a secretariat to the committee. If we wanted to do this, then why are we setting up a unit on local content? The Ministries can do it. The Cabinet Secretary and the Principal Secretary can set up a desk in the Ministry and say; you will be responsible for local content and report to me. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in all public corporations and boards, the corporation and the boards must be empowered in unlimited terms to appoint a secretary to the organisation; a person they hire and fire where necessary. Then you go on and continue diluting the intention of this Bill. It states, “The director who shall be competitively recruited by the Public Service Commission (PSC) and appointed by the Cabinet Secretary.” You know what it means by competitively appointed by the PSC. People just sit and share jobs. You know it. If you go to the PSC today, 60 per cent come from one community. They will just be sitting and say, leta huyomtu . Jobs will be shared in public clubs. We should not allow this. The board must appoint, hire and fire its secretary. We are creating a vibrant private sector. How do we subject a private sector organisation to the PSC? If this goes through, the next secretary will be a former DC with a stinking record for the last 20 years. He has stolen land across the country. Everywhere he has worked, he stolen land. Such an officer and such other public officers, the Cabinet Secretary shall in consultation with the Committee, designate for the proper --- so, this means that the entire secretariat of the committee will be designated by the Principal Secretary. If that is the case, then why are we creating an outfit? We can as well pass the law and tell them, administer, decide who local content is and who is not. The functions of the secretariat include providing technical and administrative services to the Committee then, implement the decisions. These are routine things. On behalf of the Committee, establish and maintain relationship with international, national. The Committee must be a wholesome unit. Here, we are trying to divorce the secretariat. Remember. already the committee consists of three Principal Secretaries, Chairman of the Council of Governors (CoG) and a few other people. Then, you have a secretariat that does not belong to them. First, the Principal Secretaries do not go to meetings. They will pick a university greenhorn and send them there – enda pata allowance. They will not do the job. So, this is strangling the child at birth. It will not work. I told Sen. Moi to sit here and listen to me. Another one is; collaborate with state agencies, financial institutions and other stakeholders in the implementation of policies, strategies and programmes developed pursuant to the Act. Conduct studies, research and investigations in order to enhance the development of local content and so on. Something that is lacking is that this corporation should be assisted by the Office of the Attorney General and any other bodies including Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) and manufacturers association to develop rules and criteria. That is how we shall insulate fraudsters and hustlers from taking state resources. They will be required to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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