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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Murungi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Energy",
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are just seeking clarifications on this matter. Section 3(2) merely says that a person who has held office as a Director may be re-appointed. That means that the appointing authority has discretion. Section 5(2), says: “The President, on recommendation of the Advisory Board---So”, if the intention of Parliament was to make the President seek advice from the Advisory Board on the appointment, it could have clearly said so in Section 3(2). Those words are absent. What my colleagues are failing to understand is the fact that, in Law, there are those principles which you call the principles of statutory interpretation. Even a first year law student knows that there are principles of statutory interpretation. Those are the principles that we should use in construing and interpreting Section 3(2) of the Schedule. Mr. Speaker, Sir, what the principles say is that in those cases where a statute is clear, it should be construed in accordance with the words of that statute. That is if the words are clear, plain or un-ambiguous, they must be interpreted in their natural and ordinary meaning."
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