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    "id": 129325,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Murungi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Energy",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 93,
        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was saying that the only Question before this House is whether the House should go on recess or not. It is right for hon. Members to give reasons in the course of this debate as to why the House should or should not go on recess. For me, I will be very happy on that day when this Parliament will have its own calendar so that we know when the House opens and when the House goes on recess because it will make these Motions, that sometimes get acrimonious, unnecessary. The principle reason given as to why the House should not go on recess is, so that the House can remain to discuss a matter of great public importance which is defined as the legality or the illegality in the re-appointment of Justice Aaron Ringera as the Director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC). I do not want to comment on the merits and the demerits of that issue. It is the right of Parliament to discuss that issue in its proper forum. Even if this House goes on recess, the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs will not go on recess. I think it is time that this issue be discussed in a dispassionate, professional and objective manner. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, those who watched KTN television last night must have heard that this issue is not closed. The law itself does leave some room for argument. It does leave some doubts. The process of re-appointment of the top officers of the KACC is very clear. The positions are advertised by the Board, interviews are conducted by the Board and the names which are shortlisted by the Board are brought to Parliament, which are then discussed by the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and then finally"
}