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    "id": 1223395,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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    "content": "Member of Parliament. However, once nominated, members of the SRC come to us - who have no qualifications - for vetting. I do not know how we are supposed to vet them given that we do not have any qualifications. All nominees for appointment as members of constitutional commissions come here requiring us to vet them. We plough through volumes of materials, with our empty heads since we never went to school. How do we do that? The Executive brings all the appointees for approval and we have done that faithfully. How do we do that with empty heads? The people of Mathare would be very offended. They have a Member of Parliament who holds an LLB Degree, a first degree in Literature, Sociology and Philosophy from Kenyatta University, and a Diploma from the Kenya School of Law. I was elected for the first time by 40,000 voters, something which none of these Commissioners can boast of. I was also elected for the second time with a similar number of voters and yet we have a Commission that tells you that Members of Parliament are No. 43! You go to public functions and you are treated as No. 43 yet these people come to this House to ask you for a budget. In the last budget, under this notorious Article 223 where you spend before approval, the first thing these commissioners did was to authorise for themselves V8s without approval. It is time we made this Commission part-time and have three commissioners instead of five. I would also like to canvass the purview of the Committee on Delegated Legislation. Going forward, I want this Committee to consider other matters and not only regulations that we want to annul. Under Article 94(5) of the Constitution of Kenya, it is only this House that has power to make anything have the force of law. We must stamp the authority of this House and ensure that all regulations, not only this one, come under the authority of Parliament in plenary."
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