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    "id": 1209880,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Is Sen. Sifuna forgetting that the President is, first, a symbol of national unity? Secondly, the Presidency is the highest office in the land. Thirdly, we are a constitutional democracy that observes the presidential system. The fact that a President nominates means that there are checks in the sense that the National Assembly Members of his party get to vet those people. If they find the people nominated by the President do not fit the bill, they reject them. If you read our Constitution, the definition of who can serve in the Public Service Commission (PSC) is laid out. Persons who have been in politics in the last five years do not qualify to serve in that body. It has serious checks and the President cannot wake up and nominate every Tom, Dick and Harry. There are procedures laid out by the Constitution on how one gets to be nominated as a member of the Public Service Commission (PSC). Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, I struggle to understand how the House can take that slot meant for the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) and give it to the PPLC. Sen. Wakili Sigei has agreed with those who spoke in the morning that we cannot legislate ourselves out of work. Sen. Okiya Omtatah has reduced Parliament from four to two slots. Now, we want to reduce ourselves again from two to one. That is why I rose and said that I struggle to understand how we could do that. I am glad that the Chairman of the Justice and Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee (JLAC) has withdrawn that amendment and, therefore, we are back to the default mode. We will have two slots for the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya and this is very important. I explained in the morning that it is good for us to have good justification because this is a multi-religious society."
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