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"speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang-Nyongâo",
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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to answer. I dissolved the Board of the Kenya Medical Laboratories Technicians and Technologists early this year following numerous complaints by stakeholders for various malpractices including financial impropriety. I reconstituted the Board on 24th September, 2010, through gazette notices Nos.11519 and 11520. In doing so, I was guided by the Kenya Medical Laboratories Technicians and Technologists Act No. 10 of 1999 as well as by the recommendations of a task force that I had formed in September 2009 to probe the previous board. The task force recommended further review of the operations of the previous board by the Efficiency Monitoring Unit (EMU) in the Office of the Prime Minister. I similarly took considerations of its findings and recommendations in constituting the new board. As regards the specific sections of the Kenya Medical Laboratories Technicians and Technologists Act, No. 10 of 1999; that is alleged I failed to comply with, I wish to provide explanations as follows:- (i) Section 6 (1) specifies the general membership of the board which I have adhered to. I have not appointed any member into the board outside the provisions of the Act. However, in the interest of stakeholders and the public good, I have taken action to prevent persons of questionable character from transacting the boardâs business. (ii) Section 6 (1)(c) provides for the registrar to be a member of the board and he is, in fact, a member of the board. Being an ex-officio member especially recognized in the Act, it was not necessary to gazette the occupant as a member. (iii) Section 6(1)(e) provides for the Medical Laboratories Technologists in charge of the division of vector bone diseases to be a member of the board. Again, this is an ex-officio member who does not need to be gazetted as the office is expressly recognized by the Act as a member. However, the current occupant of the office, Mr. Wilson Njeru Kaaria, was adversely mentioned in the EMU Report and the office is, therefore, not invited to attend board meetings until the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation replaces him. (iv) Section (6)(1)(f) provides for the association to elect three registered laboratory technicians, two of whom should be in private practice. I received names of the three representatives of the association and gazetted two of them namely; Miss Margaret Wanjiku Muchaba and Mr. Maina Ogutu. I declined to register the third representative, Mr. Jackson Abuya, because he was adversely mentioned in the EMU Report. (v) Section (6) (1)(g) provides for the association to elect three registered laboratory technologists to the board, two of whom shall be in private practice. I received names of three representatives of the association and proceeded to gazette one of them, Mr. Silas G. Muguongo. I declined to gazette the other two; Messrs. Laban Omondi Onono and Raphael Gakonde Gikera, because they were adversely mentioned in the EMU Report. (vi) Section 6 (1)(h) provides for the Executive Chairman to be a member of the board. The current chairman is Mr. Moses Collins Onono Olole who having been adversely mentioned in the EMU Report is not invited to meetings of the board. (vii) Section 7 relates to powers of the board and is therefore not relevant to appointments. It is important to note that regardless of the members who do not attend board meetings on account of not being gazetted or not being invited, the board has been able to attain the quorum of 11 as provided for in the schedule of the Act on Section 34. It is, therefore, not impeded from transacting business."
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