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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyimi",
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        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to oppose this Motion. I am privileged to serve in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, chaired by hon. Abdikadir. When we met to look at the composition of the advisory board, we introduced nine new faces to the Board, out of 12, and requested three members to continue. The reason for this was to make sure that we have a Board that would give us a more competent Director and Assistant Directors. The second point I would like to make is that I was privileged to be the founding chair of the Steering Committee against Corruption. This is a committee appointed by the President himself. This was the first time that the Government was putting money in what you may call civic education. Through the work of this Committee – I am glad to see that we are still, through this Committee, moving the masses; we were able to raise the levels of civic awareness and competence regarding issues of corruption. The expectations of our people with regard to the subject of corruption are extremely high. The media has played its part, the civil society has played its part; I would like to believe that religious organizations have played their part. I note that this Committee was created by the Executive fiat. Now that the expectations of our people are so high, why would we want to betray their expectations by continuing with this learned gentleman? Thirdly, appointing Justice Ringera is merely a misappropriation of the Executive prerogative. We have an opportunity to unite our people. When this kind of appointment is done, although legally so, we end up dividing our people, creating suspicion, getting people to feel uneasy with one another, to feel as if they do not belong and that they should not be around the table with other people. This was the problem and that is why we had elections in 2002 under the NARC Government. People’s expectations were of doing business in a manner that united our people. People in every part of our country should serve this nation. It was as if certain jobs belonged to people from a certain part of the country. We must reject this position. Corruption is one of our biggest problems. It has eaten into our very own existence. It is a national problem. It has brought us to near poverty. It has introduced conflict and brought a lot of other problems. If we do not take a position on it, we will be saying that we are happy with corruption and that we can continue with business as usual. I oppose."
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