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    "id": 100729,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/100729/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 391,
        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I think what we are dealing with here is a bit more important than the apparent way it has been moved. If we are going to do vetting as Parliament whether we have a new constitution or not, it is necessary that we set the ground rules very clearly from the beginning. There is, currently, some difficulties from the executive that they have difficulties with Committees. I want to agree with my colleagues that perhaps, the process should be the other way; that the executive should be doing the sourcing and proposing for Parliament to approve as opposed to what we are doing now; that, Parliament is choosing, vetting and then in a sense, approving and subjecting it to the executive purely for a formal appointment. The reason why I differ with my colleagues in respect to these appointments, particularly that of the director and the assistant director for investigations is on three very broad grounds. The first one in respect of the director, who is a very good friend of mine and I believe he is a competent and capable person and qualified, is that, one; he has had a job on the constitutional process when we were at the Bomas of Kenya. His handling of that particular assignment led, in my view, and I was not a member of that executive committee in Bomas, to the collapse of that process and led to the walk-out of the deliberations when they were at the very final point. On that score, to be fair to all of them, I have brought the HANSARD report of those proceedings both of the technical committee and the plenary session, which I wish to lay on the Table."
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