2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
I beg to move.
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2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
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2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 7 of the Bill be amended— (a) in sub clause (1) by deleting paragraph (d), and substituting therefor the following new paragraph—
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2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
(d) five other members, appointed by the Cabinet Secretary being— (i) two persons with professional qualifications in the fields of science and technology, law, trade, business or industry; (ii) two persons, one with professional qualifications in finance, and another person with professional qualifications in law or human resource management; and, (iii) one person with professional qualifications in consumer protection. (b) by inserting the following new sub clause immediately after sub clause (1)— “(1A) The persons appointed under subsection (1) shall be subjected to a competitive recruitment process taking into account the recommendations of the relevant professional bodies, gender and regional ...
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2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
The justification here is to provide a criterion for the appointment of five members to the Board. It requires the appointing authority to consider recommendation of relevant professional bodies, gender and regional balance. I have also looked at the amendments proposed by my good colleagues and they are addressing more or less the same issue. The only divergent area is that they are recommending having more people in the Board. They are more specific and I think over legislating by specifically putting particular people in the Board. Secondly, as per the Mwongozo principles that guide the various boards, we only ...
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2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
She is already convinced. I will convince her even further when we get to Clause 8. We were alive to the same idea and we said that we will provide co- option of people with relevant knowledge and expertise. It is well-covered in the next Clause which I do not want to pre-empt. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
My good friend, the Majority Whip, is somehow misleading us. This entity would not be testing. It is the one accrediting testing bodies. It has to be very clear. It is not this agency that will be doing the testing. It will be accrediting the testing bodies. They are many. There are over 20 testing bodies. If we put each and everybody on the Board, we will definitely have a bloated board.
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2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. That is a debate we also had. We looked at the Mwongozo which gives the guidelines. In Mwongozo, there are no vice-chairs provided for. We were of the opinion that most parastatals have a chair, a remunerated office, but there is no position of a vice-chair. So, we went as per the Mwongozo The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
guidelines. I respectfully submit and beseech my good friend Hon. Millie Odhiambo to withdraw her amendment.
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2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
On the issue of gender, which she is passionate about, I believe the team that will constitute this Board will definitely take that into consideration. So, it will be taken care of.
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