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    "id": 1197345,
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    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Musalia Mudavadi. The Committee has duly recommended that, in a short while, a legislative framework needs to be established for this office to be anchored properly in law. Hon. Speaker, as I conclude, this House is being called upon to rise to the occasion and not to be seen as a mere rubberstamp. This House cannot be a rubberstamp. It could not have been the intention of the framers of the Constitution that this House would be a mere rubberstamp to pass the nominations that have been brought to it by the President. There is a reason the framers of the Constitution established Article 152(2) that the President would not have a free pass or an open cheque. That this House would act as a safeguard to address issues of suitability, integrity and all other issues surrounding each and every nominee to the high office of CS. I will be calling upon this House that when the time comes for taking a vote, that as we approve the other nominees who the Committee has approved... When it comes to the two nominees, that is, Hon. Mithika Linturi and Hon. Aisha Jumwa, about whom we have drafted a dissenting opinion, I hope that the House will agree with us and reject their nomination. On that account Hon. Speaker, I will be pleading with the House to vote these two nominees individually and separately. I am being advised that we need to vote for each nominee individually and separately. Hon. Speaker, that is important so that this House pronounces itself properly. Kenya is a leading democracy in the region of East and Central Africa. We cannot allow persons against whom issues have been raised, however slight they may be, to be paraded, encouraged and shepherded to the high office of CS and the likes. This House must stand firm and be on the right side of history. With those many remarks Hon. Speaker, I support with those reservations. Thank you."
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