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    "id": 1402621,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Maanzo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Maanzo Daniel Kitonga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I congratulate Sen. Cherarkey for coming up with this thought and having drafted the Bill very professionally. If you look at the other thresholds in all the other laws affecting any other member, it is two-thirds. If it is the removal of the President, Speaker or a Cabinet Secretary, the threshold is two-thirds. However, when it comes to the CECM, it is one- third. This means, even an opposition party in the county can remove a CECM whom they do not like. It also means that the majority party in the county can do away with a CECM in just one sitting. Therefore, there is a need to balance or equalize this. The standard the world over is two-thirds and, therefore, this is in line with the world practice and gives protection to any person who gets appointed to a position and then witch-hunt removes them from their position. Impeachment is a political process. The moment politics changes it becomes very easy to impeach officers or force them out of office, while they had been guaranteed of a job or to be able to earn a living. When it also comes to the other procedures like when you want to raise signatures to remove a Member of Parliament, the law is not clear what will happen to a Senator. Unfortunately, currently we do not have the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), which would have processed that. However, the threshold is high. It is not as low as a third. Therefore, this is a law which we should pass even without an amendment. It is very well drafted and it is good for the nation, so that we can safeguard the rights of the other people, and especially employment rights and safeguard them against political witch-hunt. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support."
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