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    "speaker_name": "Mr. M’Mithiaru",
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        "legal_name": "Ntoitha M'mithiaru",
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    "content": "Our Committee has already deliberated on this issue as presented to us by the Board. We even called the Board, which appeared before our Committee. They brought all the necessary information required, namely; qualifications of the applicants, both academic and professional and the experience required. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we were going through the documentations, there is one issue that we wish that Parliament can take up. This is the issue of appointment of all the chief executive officers and all senior appointments, especially where we have the board members trying to give different views. Once things have been passed through a Parliamentary Committee and the committee calls the board to appear, if there is any disagreement among the members of the board, it has to be pointed out and this is where we encourage that kind of approach, especially where the board is not split and we see them unanimously agreeing on the appointments that they make. There is also the other issue that we wish Parliament can have; we have seen issues where appointments of CEOs are in dispute like the appointment of the CEO of the Kenya Bureau of Standards. We have seen the appointments like the one that was coming up for the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation. Those issues can be avoided if this kind of due diligence can be followed. We would also wish that Parliament, with all the Parliamentary committees can come up with some kind of a universal format that can be agreed on which the committees can use to vet all those names that are presented to them to ensure that all the due diligence was actually followed. Even to our satisfaction on the board of Public Procurement Oversight Authority, we even went through the advertisement that they put in the press, including the qualifications that they had put for all those who had to apply. We satisfied ourselves that all those had been followed. Lastly, as Members of Parliament especially in the Committees, the issue of a designed format on what we are supposed to follow as we grill the Members, will really go a long way so that also, we do not have committee members giving different formats, so that we all have something which is standardized and which is acceptable to all Members of Parliament, and when it is presented to the House, there is nobody who is going to say that you used double standards here or any other questionable means of presentation. I beg to second the Motion."
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