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    "id": 128483,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, my dear friend, Mr. Murungi was then the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs and with whom I served in the Kombo Committee on Anti- Corruption and we developed this law on Economic Crimes and Public Ethics Act. When he was presenting that Bill in Parliament, he said as follows:- “Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Commission is to be managed by a Director. “That is in Clause 5 of the Bill”. The Director should be a suitably qualified person in the areas of law, finance and public policy. The Director will also have Assistant Directors, all of whom should be appointed by the Advisory Board on recommendation of Parliament---. So, we are introducing a new culture in this country where appointments to public office in this country should be vetted by Parliament. We are starting with this Bill. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Bill provides for independence and autonomy of the Commission in the performance of its duties. Clause 7 says:- “In the performance of their functions the Commission and the Director shall not be subject to the direction of any other person or authority and that the State Corporations Act should not apply to the Commission.” So, the Executive shall not have power to appoint director today, remove him tomorrow and appoint another one. It further says:- “The Director has some security of tenure and during the five years, he or she can only be removed from office by a tribunal appointed after recommendation of the Advisory Board. So, the process of removing the Chief Officer of the Commission from this office is a bit complicated.”"
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