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    "id": 78637,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/78637/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to oppose this amendment and seek to persuade this Committee. While appreciating the need for the oversight role by Parliament at the appointment of Chief Executives, we are creating an authority here. We, as Parliament, have given the responsibility of vetting of the Board to Parliament. But having vetted a Board and given them authority to then hire a Director-General, perhaps, we are going into micromanagement at the point of even vetting a Chief Executive who is hired by the Authority. The operating words here are the “Director-General appointed by the Authority”, not appointed by the Government. It is an authority that has been created by Parliament with specific mandate and specific qualifications. My worry is that if we continue this, the Chief Executive we so appoint, will have his allegiance not to the Board, not to the Authority, but to the ultimate appointing authority, which is the approval by Parliament. Our Chief Executives, when they become politicized could now end up missing out what they should be doing and fail to be accountable to the Board. I know that the Committee has very good intentions in terms of wanting to see that the Board has appointed the right person, but when we put this law it will be used for"
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