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    "id": 980983,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I beg to move that the Fisheries Management and Development (Amendment) Bill, Senate Bills No. 22 of 2019 be now read a Second Time. This is a straightforward amendment Bill. Way back in 2016, this House spent considerable time to come up with The Fisheries Management and Development Bill which was subsequently assented to by the President. The Fisheries Management and Development Act which we are calling the principal Act established a number of bodies, for example, the Kenya Fisheries Council, Kenya Fisheries Service and Fish Marketing Authority. Three years down the line some of these agencies have not been operationalised particularly, the Fish Marketing Authority It was due to a clause that we put in the parent Act that required the Chairperson of the Fish Marketing Authority to receive parliamentary approval. We went further and declared that the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Fish Marketing Authority should also be vetted by Parliament before being appointed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my amendment seeks to simplify the procedure for appointment of the Chairperson and CEO of the Fish Marketing Authority. The requirement in the principal Act that the Chairperson and CEO be vetted by the National Assembly before appointment goes against the grain of established practice in corporate governance and the Mwongozo Code that we came up with as a nation to guide us in running State corporations. This Bill proposes that the Chairperson of the Fish Marketing Authority be appointed by the President. It also proposes that the CEO to be appointed competitively by the Board of the Fish Marketing Authority subject to a four-year term renewable once. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, why does this matter? Fish is big in certain parts of this country. In furtherance of the pillar on food security, it is important that we refocus on some of the sustainable sources of food that would contribute to the pillar of the Big Four Agenda. The Fish Marketing Authority was established with the objective of marketing fish and fish products from Kenya. For a long time, the people who came from the fishing"
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