Henry Kosgey

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, what I understood is that he tried to solicit a sum of Kshs30,000 from an individual or from that person and, eventually, he got into problems. That has nothing to do with me. As I said, I do not have a personal interest in this matter except that I am discharging the functions as required by the law. view
• 11 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not think that arises. The Question is about exemptions of approximately 400 or so old vehicles which belong to Kenyans. Under the view
• 11 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not think the question of stepping aside arises. I said my visit to KACC is now public knowledge. The letter the--- view
• 11 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: No, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. This is in respect of a Statement requested by hon. Eseli in regard to the recruitment of the Managing Director of the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS). The KEBS contracted the KPMG to advertise, interview and shortlist candidates for the position of the Managing Director. The KPMG advertised in March, 2010, and got 115 applicants, out of which 14 were shortlisted and invited for interviews. The KPMG requested to interview another seven who they felt merited to be interviewed and asked for an additional Kshs500,000 over and above the contract sum of ... view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the correspondence I received detailed as follows: The recruitment exercise began in August, 2010, received 74 applications. Out of which 15 were shortlisted and 11 turned up for interview. In order to ensure transparency, all the candidates were coded and their real names and identities not disclosed to the Chairman, Council members and the Permanent Secretary or myself. However, there were three Council members who knew everything because they are the ones who did the coding. At the end of the interview process, the candidates scored based on the questions asked and the top five candidates ... view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Faced with the concern of the Council members, I directed them to hold further meetings to try and achieve a consensus within the council. Unfortunately, further meetings held by the Council failed to achieve any consensus. The minutes of the meeting show the division within the council. A protest letter to the Chairman that was signed by eight council members out of 13 members and copied to the Permanent Secretary and myself, give the details of the lack of consensus. Further minutes of the meeting of 6th October, show that the council resolved that the lack of consensus requires the ... view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, after eliminating 039, 016 and 019, I found Candidate KEBS 011, Joseph Kipketer Kosgey, was the most suitable candidate for appointment as the Managing Director, KEBS. In their own decision, the Board had actually reached the conclusion that any one of these five was suitable for appointment as the Managing Director. In their minutes of 6th October, they also decided that because they were unable to reach a unanimous decision on the final vetting, the Minister could use his discretion to appoint any one of those five. I exercised that discretion. The Act actually says the ... view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is also important to know that allegations of tribalism have no basis, whatsoever. In fact, it is interesting. Sometimes, it is difficult to actually imagine why the chairman, after conducting what could have been a very successful exercise refused to do the final vetting. Your guess is as good as mine. I believe that there was an element of discrimination here because had the final step been taken, the list would have shown otherwise. In fact, one council member confided to me that they discussed on the 15th what they were going to do. Firstly, ... view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Secondly, as the analysis above shows, Joseph Kipketer Kosgey is capable and he achieved a high score in the interview. His CV is quite impeccable. It is not fair, therefore, to just say because the Minister, probably, bears the same name as Kipketer that he should be discriminated against. In making my decision, I was also guided by the fact that the position of the Managing Director, KEBS had remained vacant for over a year. We had done a process with KPMG that did not yield results. The process which the Board conducted actually yielded credible results up to the ... view