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    "id": 1050630,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, as I agree with the Leader of the Majority Party’s position, this matter has been in this House for some time. The reason we are very much concerned, in my opinion and in the opinion of the House, is that this might be the highest definition of impunity—that a nominee for a State office as sensitive as that of an Ambassador can be approved on a condition, that for you to get the job you must renounce your other citizenship. The question that bothers all of us, as we give the Leader of the Majority Party time, is: Was the House right to grant a condition for her appointment? And the decision of the House with respect to the Report of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations when this matter came up first included a condition that if she is to be approved she needs to renounce her US citizenship. Now, what are we dealing with this afternoon? I think the Leader of the Majority Party should take less time. I agree that we need to go by his suggestions because we cannot discuss this report. There is a possibility and we need to be very fair and the House must not act in vain. Maybe, Mwende Maluki has complied with the recommendation of the Committee and forfeited her US citizenship. In that circumstance, then this report ought not to be discussed by the House and we should go by the report of the Committee that approved her on condition. The only information we need from the Leader of the Majority Party, and I said it last week, is whether Mwende renounced her US citizenship. Hon. Speaker, you can order from where you sit that in another seven days the Committee can summon the CS or the Leader of the Majority Party can give the House the only information missing. Has Mwende renounced her US citizenship? If she has, then Hon. Kenta’s report is null and void and the House should not discuss it. What we go back to is the report that the House adopted previously. The information the Leader of the Majority Party is looking for is important. I agree with him, with the Chair, Hon. Otiende Amollo and Hon. Pukose that we step the matter down. But looking at the calendar of the House and given that this is a serious matter, he can bring us the information next week and if we feel this report should be debated, then the House will be given the liberty to discuss it. So, I agree with the timeline of three weeks. This is a matter of ascertaining whether that person has renounced her US citizenship. This is a small matter. The Leader of the Majority can do it even tomorrow, unless he wants this matter of the Budget..."
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