Mr. Makali, Its interesting that you raise this question. Does the constitution envisage only critical or also praiseful public participation?Aware that the latter may be thornier for PSC and/or whomever interviee might be. ------------------------------ On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 10:18 AM MSKS dmakali@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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