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    "id": 1399530,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wakili Sigei",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I believe Sen. Wambua will get an opportunity to contribute to the Conflict of Interest Bill. I hope the intervention was because of his interest to contribute to this particular Bill. Since we have tabled a report, I will wait for his comments on it. Thank you for allowing me to contribute to this Bill. Before I do, I would like to appreciate the membership of the Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights that sat to deliberate on the Bill the moment it was commissioned before the Committee. We received a number of comments from stakeholders. To be very specific, we received over 13 memoranda from the National Police Service Commission (NPSC), the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), County Assembly Forum (CAF) Kenya Civil Servants Association (KCSA), and the Kenya Law Reform Commission (KLRC) among others. As I said, we received up to 13 memoranda from various interested stakeholders. As the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights, we concurred with the majority of the stakeholders, particularly on one aspect, that observed that while the Bill seeks to repeal the Public Officers and Ethics Act, 2003, it does not adequately speak to and provide for fundamental aspects of the ethics spelt out in the Public Officers and Ethics Act, 2003. The proposed amendments, therefore, to this Bill and this report are a product of extensive deliberations and consultations that have taken place to ensure that we have a good law in place that will stand the test of time. I wish to thank your office and the office of the Clerk of the Senate for the logistical and technical support that was accorded to this Committee during the extensive consideration of the Bill. I equally wish to thank"
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