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    "id": 714902,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ganya",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
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    "content": "THAT, pursuant to Section 7 of the Climate Change Act, 2016, Section 8(1) of the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act, 2011 and Standing Order 45(4), this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources on the vetting of the Nominees for appointment as Members of the National Climate Change Council, laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 (Morning Sitting), and approves the recommendations of the Committee as follows:- (i) Approves the appointment of Messrs. Suresh Patel and John Kioli as Members of the National Climate Change Council; (ii) Rejects the appointment of Ms. Cynthia Wechabe and Dr. Jane Mutheu as Members of the Climate Change Council; and (iii)Recommends that the appointing authority submits nominees of the female gender to represent the marginalized communities and Commission for University Education as prescribed by Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act. This was a Joint Committee of the National Assembly and the Senate. In undertaking the vetting process we considered matters relating to integrity and suitability of these candidates in terms of both academic and professional qualifications. We also took a hard look to see if they had fulfilled all their constitutional and statutory requirements. All these are great Kenyans who are all well qualified for this job. However, we rejected the two nominees, Ms. Cynthia Wechabe and Dr. Jane Mutheu simply because we questioned the integrity of their nomination process. We felt the process was flawed and nominations were not done in an open and transparent manner as required by our Constitution. For instance, Dr. Jane Mutheu was supposed to represent the academicians and we expected the Commission for Higher Education (CHE) to appoint that nominee. This is because the Climate Change Act, 2016 clearly states that there should be representatives of institutions or structures of either marginalised communities or academia. We felt with regard to those two nominees, the process was not well done and was flawed."
}