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"speaker_name": "Kipkelion East, JP",
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"content": "interview which was conducted on 30th September 2019. Following the interview, the candidates performed as follows: Hon. Amina Abdalla, 88.55 per cent; Hon. Andrew Toboso Anyanga, 72.15 per cent; Abdiraham ali Hassan, 68.75 per cent; Hon. Rachel Ameso Amolo, 64.65 per cent; Hon. Isaac Kipkemboi Melly, 63.95 per cent and finally, Hon. Michael Aringo Onyura, 61 per cent. On 30th September 2019, the PSC resolved to forward the name of one nominee to the President following the interview and, therefore, consideration to be sent to the National Assembly. Accordingly, the name which was forwarded to the CS of the National Treasury and Planning was that of Hon. Amina Abdalla as nominee for the PSC. That is why we are here to consider this nominee. Hon. Amina Abdalla is not new to Parliament. She was here; she has served in this House and she is among the ranking Members having served three terms. She was nominated to serve in this House in the 9th Parliament, the 10th Parliament and the 11th Parliament. Those are three consecutive terms. I want to say that she is not new. Just to sum up on her CV, Hon. Amina Abdalla holds a Master’s Degree in International Development from the Cornell University in the USA as well as a Bachelor of Science Degree, Agriculture and Home Economics from Egerton University in Njoro. On work experience, Hon. Abdalla has 25 years’ experience in the public sector, oversight and the international natural resource management, having served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for a record 15 years. While she was in the National Assembly, she served as the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources in the 11th Parliament and the Chairperson of the Select Committee on Delegated Legislation in the 10th Parliament. Additionally, she is serving as a member of Presidential Tribunal set to investigate the conduct of Justice Lucy Njoki Waithaka, Njagi Marete and Martin Muia, from August 2019 to date. She also served in the Presidential Tribunal set up to investigate the conduct of Supreme Judge Hon. Jackton B. Ojwang’, from April to August 2019. Besides that, she has served as a regional projects coordinator at the World Conservation Union, regional office for East Africa in Nairobi, from June 2000 to January 2003, among others. She has a long list of various places she got opportunity to serve. I will encourage Members to refer to the Committee Report which we tabled, because it is a very long list. This particular nominee has serious, outstanding experience from various sectors, including non-governmental organisations. Hon. Amina Abdalla has served the public very well. She was able to get awards, distinctions and others. Just to mention a few, she was awarded water ambassador by the Government of Kenya for her contribution to the review of the Water Act in 2016. She was also awarded the Presidential Award of the Chief of the Burning Spear (CBS), First Class, for her contribution to the legislative reforms in the natural resources sector in 2015. She was also awarded the NACADA award for sponsoring the Bill that anchored the agency into law in 2012. During the engagement with the Committee, she showed a lot of capability in terms of handling the position to which she has been nominated. She was able to really inform us that she is aware that there have been a lot of relationship problems between the SRC and other government bodies for obvious reasons. Given that the SRC is a Commission which deals with"
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