[kictanet] [mediaeditors] Why Barr the Media from PS Interviews?

[Eng. Wainaina Mungai]

Makali has put forward my prefered approach. His approach allows for
real 'public participation' by allowing representation of views by the
public.

For private media, it's impractical to have 155 persons on live TV
continuously for 10 or so days. May the coverage be on the final
shortlist, instead.

I doubt there's need to attack the character of the Chair of PSC.
Instead, submit representations to PSC about the candidates by
Thursday, demand public rep. is allowed to be present at interviews
and limit live broadcast to fewer candidates.

On 4/30/13, dmakali at yahoo.com <dmakali at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mayb we need to interrogate the meaning of "public participation" threshold
> of the constitution.  Does watching or holding a recruitment process in the
> open space - on tv or a physical venue like kicc - constitute public
> participation or is it that every citizen is free and has an opportunity to
> be considered and to raise any matter pertinent to the recruitment and
> potential recruits that counts?
>
> Methinks the latter, which has been complied with by psc advertising and
> inviting any1 interested to apply. That also meets the "competitive"
> criterion.
>
> The next demand we should put on them is to facilitate or make it possible
> for any1 who wants to sit in the room to observe the process or to submit
> any information that may assist it to recruit the right candidates do so.
> That complies with the transparency requirement.
>
> The interviews can otherwise become a farce at this stage if the template is
> applied across the 155 applicants.  The live broadcast can come at the final
> stahe wen the shortlisted go before Parliament where scrutiny should be even
> more thorough and of a different kind - political and ideological.
>
> David
>
>
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