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"speaker_name": "Mr. Duale",
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"content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to oppose this Report. I have all my reasons. The czar of KACC and the investigative assistant director we are looking for is not about eloquence. It is not about how you can be a good public speaker. It is about your integrity, your history. It is about the kind of person we want to give this job to. For you to assess the integrity of an individual, you must assess his history. We cannot, and I want Members to bear me out that the parliamentary legal committee did its part, the final group that will okay these three names rests with this House, the 222 Members of Parliament. The world over, if you look at the anti-corruption czars, they are people of high integrity. We are talking of one of the names here and noted that he has been the lawyer of the most corrupt individuals in this country. One of the worst corruption cases that KACC has been investigating for many years is the Goldenberg Scam. One of the individuals named here has been a lawyer for the most corrupt people in this country. And we know the bond that develops between a client and a lawyer. Here, there is a conflict of interest. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we want a person we are going to give this job to have complete delineation from politics. If you could not convince a constituency for political leadership, then we cannot give you this job. If your history at the University of Nairobi is in doubt, if your involvement with past regimes is in question, it is not whether you sit on a TV station in a programme called âMoving the Massesâ. That will not make you the czar that we want. It is not how you speak, we do not want a good speaker. We want a person who is going to restore the confidence Kenyans have in the war against corruption. Let us not be carried away by friendship in the legal profession. Let us not be carried away because one of the names here, you come from the same club. Let us not be carried away because some of the names come from your region. The person we want to submit is bigger than the Head of State and bigger than this Parliament. The biggest problem we have in this country is corruption."
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