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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ngetich",
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        "legal_name": "Cecilia Chelangat Ngetich",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this chance to also contribute on the Privatisation (Amendment) Bill. Just like my colleagues have said, I do not want to repeat much. I want to concur and support this Bill with some reservations on some clauses that I would like to be amended during the Third Reading before the Bill is finally passed into law. I partly support Clause 5(1)(d). It is talking about approval by the relevant Committee of Parliament. That is substituting with the words “competitive process”. We should have a standard procedure of appointing commissioners. Most of the commissioners that we have approved have followed certain process. First of all, it should be a competitive process and then the names are brought to Parliament for final appointment. This is part of an oversight to see whether this person is suitable for the position or not. So, taking that away from this House is denying us that responsibility of doing our work on oversight. We know the competitive process is in law. We have to give everyone an opportunity to compete equally with all other Kenyans, but we should not be denied that oversight role of counterchecking competitive process. I suggest that there should be a procedure on how these commissioners are appointed. It should not be that one commission has its own procedure and yet it is the same Government. There is a lot of skepticism about the privatisation process. One of the reasons we are privatising is for better services or management. The people who will be appointed to private entities are Kenyans who have been serving in the public sector. What were they doing? Or they decided not to do good work while in the public service but decide to do good work when they are in a private entity. We must bring back performance contracting. It is there but nowadays it is not followed up. Performance contracting was to make the public entities work like private companies where there is good management and result-oriented teamwork. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the two-thirds quorum because you are letting the majority to deliberate on issues and whatever will be agreed upon will be like more less a general consensus. However, this does not always mean that it is a sure way of ensuring that there is integrity. All we have to say is that whoever is put in charge should be responsible and always uphold integrity that is in Chapter Six of our Constitution. I would like to say that Bills that sometimes come at this time of the year are not really scrutinised by the majority of the Members."
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