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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to oppose the recommendations of the Committee for the following reasons. First, we were inundated with applications of Kenyans who rightfully felt that they qualified to serve in the SRC to represent the counties and the Senate. We had 80 applications out of which we shortlisted 42 candidates. By the time we shortlisted them, all of them had met the minimum qualifications for shortlisting. In fact, because of the large number of candidates, we thought that we needed to shortlist again if at all that would suffice. However it was none other than Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. – I wish he was here – who said that there is no other criterion that would further reduce the number of the people who were shortlisted. We went ahead and each and every Senator ranked each and every candidate. In fact, at that time, we were not to do the totals after having interviewed a candidate. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, many candidates of great repute and who have served this country in various capacities presented themselves for the interview. It was extremely difficult to rank them without necessarily giving them marks that would be far much at variance. I want to commend the ladies who appeared before us. Many of them performed very well. If you look at the list, I have indicated the candidate who got the highest marks because he deserved it. However, I am at pains to look at the report in which we ranked the best candidate. This is a young man with all the relevant qualifications. However, later on, a new criterion was introduced so as to question his 10 years’ experience. I asked a number of questions: Is it because the best candidate, Sen. Melly, is a young person? What is it that would be considered to be relevant experience? What better experience can there be other than representing the people of Uasin Gishu County for five years in this august House? Are we saying that we who are currently serving in this House, that whatever experience we are getting here is irrelevant for us to occupy any other public office? I beg to differ. We must look at this issue objectively. We, as politicians, know very well that some people can be good in theory, but poor in practice. There has been a lot of push and pull between the Salaries Remuneration Commission (SRC) and the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) which is our employer and by extension the people of Kenya. We need someone---"
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