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    "id": 1339611,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "In conclusion, some dangerous and unfortunate amendments had been proposed in this Bill. If Members paid attention to the amendments moved by the Chairman for the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure on the NTSA Act, somebody mischievously sought to extend the term of a Director-General of NTSA from three to five years. The Mwongozo Policy and all our public service guidelines clearly provide that public officers should serve for three years, renewable once, so that you do not have people creating fiefdoms in Government offices. That is why even the drafters of the current Constitution put a term limit to our governors and even the President. It is only people who are in elective offices who go for elections every five years that should enjoy that five-year term. It is very unfortunate that there are those who are using miscellaneous amendments to introduce a simple provision of saying, ‘‘delete three and substitute therefor with five’’, just because they think that Members of Parliament are so uninformed and un-alert. They think that they can extend their terms illegally. I want to tell those Government bureaucrats in Ministries that we are very alert. We shall not allow them to misuse this House to extend their terms in office."
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