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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not so difficult for it to be proposed that from the ten of them, the governors or nominees from those counties can set up a selection panel and establish an individual who has the right competence, skills, determination, and focus to drive this particular institution so that we stop this business. It is a shame that with millions of youths that are jobless, chances are that most of the fish that we consume in this city is not from the lakeside; it is not from Lake Naivasha, but it comes thousands of miles all the way from China. What is the difference? It is because they manage these institutions in China better than we are doing in Kenya. What is the reason? I say, everything rises and falls on leadership. It tells you that the people who have been at the helm of some of these institutions have let us down. It would have been my proposal that given the fact that we, from the political leadership, have seen boards and various parastatal positions as opportunities to reward our family members, cronies and people that we ran with on the same political party. We need to reflect and rethink about all this idea. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know if it was Sen. Olekina. I saw somebody in the news recently speaking about the fact that the Public Service Commission (PSC) has failed in its responsibilities. Why are we going round the country saying we want to talk about inclusion? It is because even how we have distributed jobs is not in reflection of competency. At the end of the day, I would wish that we are in a position where, as a country, we say the reason so-and-so occupies a particular position is because of the competencies that they enjoy. Sen. M. Kajwang’, I see that even under the Clause 201, the composition of the board of directors, just like in the rest of the parastatals, the same powers have been donated to the Principal Secretary (PS) at the time being in charge of finance. I think this PS for the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development – of course I know he does not sit in person; he sends a representative – but at the end of it, is a flawed concept. That representative is supposed to exercise donated authority where, at the end of the day, they have to brief him. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, to the best of my knowledge, ever since I came to Parliament, this person, and the PS in charge of the Ministry of Trade and Industrialization and there is another one more that I cannot remember, they are almost in all the boards of all parastatals. At what time do they give strategic direction? These are the things that we need to address. We have one template that we use to draft almost all our legislation. In fact, there is one more that I was looking for. Fortunately, it is not in this Bill. I have complained and said that the next time I get a Bill that has that provision where we are saying that the headquarters will be in Nairobi--- Surely, why would you need the headquarters of a fisheries and maritime authority to be in this city? Take it to Mombasa or Kisumu, or at least to places where even ordinary fishermen can visit those particular offices and interact with the people who are running that particular sector."
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