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    "id": 100726,
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    "speaker_name": "Ms. A. Abdallah",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of the vetting process as stipulated in the KACC Act, I understand the mood of the House when we were passing the Act in 2003. It was such that anything to do with the Executive was wrong and we ended up giving ourselves and the Board, responsibilities that are actually upside. This is because we should have in-depth reports from the security agencies on candidature of this calibre. If you look at the reports we received from those agencies, it is clear that they would have been more comfortable and comprehensive if the proposed nominees were coming directly from the Executive. So that Parliament can do its actual work, which is vetting, so that we can deal with candidates that have already been cleared by the executive, so that when we are vetting them, we are vetting them on the issues that the authorities have over- looked, we would not be doing our job well. The processes that we have been doing will be more recruitment and rubberstamping the proposals that have been brought to Committees and House rather than doing actual vetting. I would really urge this House to pass this Report and the Attorney General to expeditiously take recommendation number three about proposed amendments to the Act, so that we can really take our role of vetting rather than the activities that we have been engaging in. With those few remarks I beg to second."
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