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    "id": 789741,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "No. I just want to amplify what the Chair has said. As you know, I have taken time to look at this and we spent a whole day with the Chair trying to reconcile those amendments. The intent of the drafters was to incorporate what is now known as Mwongozo Policy - good governance in management of boards. The first thing is public participation and public-private partnership so that we release governance and also incorporate the public sector. It has been a problem in the National Assembly. Every time we have those pieces of legislation, how do we now bring in those people? A body like the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) is not known to law. It has been difficult. How do we bring in those people? The thinking in the 10th Parliament was to bring in institutions so we brought in the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), the Kenya Medical Association (KMA) and the like. Over time, we found that institutions have taken control of the management of boards and so it has become a job rather than a policy work. This time, the Committee has dispensed with this type of appointment and stated that the Cabinet Secretary will appoint those people. In Clause 22, which is ahead, you will find that there is a criterion for those appointments. We have stated that it should take cognisance of regional and ethnic diversity of the people of Kenya. We do not want to see a CS waking up and it is always Otieno, Onyango, Omondi or Wangui, Kinuthia, Wangui who are appointed without Omar and Shabin. It is music to the ears of the Leader of the Majority Party. We now have an opportunity to have a transparent system in which those things are dispensed with. A Kenyan like Omtatah could go to court and claim that the people of North Eastern or Garissa have not been appointed to the board. This is the interest of the Chair in the proposals that have been passed. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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