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    "content": "I wish to address the areas where people have made emotional contributions that are not part of this Report. I am sorry that I have been mentioning the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs a lot because he has been the general in diverting the true attention of what we are addressing. First, we need to determine whether Ringera is competent or not. Even if Ringera was the most competent of the Chief Executive Officers, for example, if he was the Michael Joseph of the public sector who has made his institution very profitable, if the procedures of appointing him were wrong, then this Report should be voted for. For those who are against Ringera and have said that he is incompetent--- I would like to note that maybe many of us have not worked in situations where our performance is appraised by the person who has appointed us. You can only judge somebody’s competence by looking at the performance indicators that he had signed with his employer. So, if you advance an argument that we will vote for this Report because Ringera is incompetent and has not been able to prosecute enough people, then that is the wrong argument. This is because the performance indicator for prosecution is one that we should use to judge the Attorney-General. In the same vein, Mr. M. Kilonzo has said that Ringera is competent because the Reports from the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) say so. The Reports are not the basis of performance appraisals. We know that performance appraisals are personal target-based appraisals for somebody’s performance. The other element that has been used to judge whether this annulment should go on or not is whether Ringera earns a lot of money. I wish to be protected from Mr. Michuki because the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs, Mr. M. Kilonzo, said in a statement that was recorded by the media that those of us who are supporting the annulment are doing so because we want our relatives to get Ringera’s job. So, I must address those issues, Mr. Michuki. Mr. M. Kilonzo said that those of us who are against the re-appointments are doing so because we want our relatives to get these well-paying jobs. For a person who is the most highly public servant, the standards of his appointment must be higher than any other, but because of the sensitive nature of the job that the retired Judge holds, even if his salary was a minimal wage, we would still have the right to question the procedure of his re-appointment. Therefore, I am raising these issues so that we can deal with institutional strengthening and not the individuals holding that office or the amount of money they earn at the end of the day. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs did a great disservice to this argument when he questioned the ruling by the Speaker. He said, “Look at the Chairpersons of the Committees spearheading this matter.” I take great offence in that statement. In looking at the Chairpersons, he was actually questioning our loyalty. I wish to remind him that I am a nominated Member of Parliament from KANU and Mr. Abdikadir is the Chair of Safina. Those are two parties that are the original signatories to the Party of National Unity (PNU) Coalition. So, if it is a matter of loyalty, we should ask him to tell us why when we went round this country to campaign for Mwai Kibaki to be President, he was campaigning for himself thereby chasing away Mr. Kibaki’s voters. This is not a matter of loyalty but a matter of dealing with the issues at hand. The mistake does not lie in the test of loyalty within the PNU. Our colleagues in ODM this weekend went to their region and stated that this is a fight, that they will use"
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