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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ali",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.48(1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare regarding the recruitment of senior personnel at the Geothermal Development Company (GDC). In the Statement, the Committee should address the following- (1) State the policy or regulatory framework that guides the recruitment of senior personnel at the GDC. (2) Confirm compliance with Chapter Six of the Constitution with regard to the filling of vacancies as advertised in two daily newspapers – the Daily Nation and theStandard – on 12th February, 2019, specifically with regard to the interviews involving the positions of senior managers. (3) Establish whether regional and gender balance were taken into consideration during the recruitment exercise at the GDC for the period in question. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is a big scandal at the GDC. They decided to advertise for 11 positions and then claimed they did not get enough people in four of the positions. For the seven remaining positions, the directors decided to give each one of them one position to fill. Therefore, the people who were qualified and who were number one in the interviews and had worked in the organizations for the last several years, none of them was taken and people from outside were brought in. Madam Temporary Speaker, the situation is so bad to the extent that the members who are working at the GDC and who applied for these positions of managers – who were deputy managers and others – have decided to write to the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI), the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and everywhere else. Injustice and nepotism of the highest order is happening at the GDC. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am informed that the seven persons who were recruited all come from one region. Therefore, these issues of nepotism and corruption in this country will cause this country to fall. I, therefore, urge the people concerned to stop this behaviour and the Committee responsible to look into this urgent issue immediately and as fast as possible. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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