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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Otieno",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Public Service",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me this opportunity. As you know, I witness so many of such cases. I have been able to analyse the matter based on past spirit and past pressure, and then looked at the reform spirit and the future manner in which these things should be done. I want to commend the three Committees for initiating this action and making the recommendation, particularly only to the extent that the appointment needs to be regularised, which means the persons sitting on those Committees appreciate what used to be the past spirit. The past spirit was based on executive powers. Those with powers would do what they wished and expected everybody else to follow. We all know it. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Members of the Committee also appreciate the past pressures. When you hold a position of authority, everybody who knows you puts pressure on you to give them what is within your powers to give, even if their request is tantamount to asking you to bend the law. It is in this spirit that I support the initiative of Parliament; the Joint Committee has started early enough, even before the new Constitution comes into place, to hold the Executive accountable. This is just an early warning to the future Executive of this"
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