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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I just want to make a very short intervention. First of all, I want to assure Mr. Murungi and Prof. Saitoti that some of us are friends with Justice Ringera. This is not about Justice Ringera. This is about the process of appointment. Most of all is that the Executive seems to have been asleep when we occasioned the new regime of the Standing Orders. We came up with this particular Committee on Delegated Legislation because the Executive was doing very unlawful things and there was no way Parliament could intervene. The main purpose of this Committee, which the Executive did not appear to know that it exists, is to look at wrongful things that the Government would rush and gazette or otherwise just to get past Parliament. In this case, we want to urge you to let this Committee do what we set it up for. So many of these things are happening. There is an Act that says that the name of the Director-General of Vision 2030 would be sent to Parliament for approval. Just recently, he was unilaterally appointed without being vetted by Parliament. The person has already taken up Office. The reason why we formed this Committee is to stop the Executive from abrogating those powers that Parliament has and Parliament should exercise. Lastly, just a couple of months ago, we approved the re-appointment of two assistant directors of the KACC; Messrs. Mutonyi and Shollei and the due process was followed. Their names were brought here, we did not have a problem with them and we sent them back there. I can assure you that if the Government had followed the right process and given us our due as a Parliament of the Republic of Kenya, we probably would have approved the reappointment of Mr. Ringera. We wonder: What is the difference between the appointment of Messrs. Shollei and Mutonyi and that of Mr. Ringera? Something is fishy and that is what is irritating the country. Thank you."
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