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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Saku, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Raso",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. We have had such offices in this country. During the previous administration, we had Chief Administrative Secretaries. It was confirmed, and many of us agreed; that it was not anchored in law. Some Chief Administrative Secretaries appeared before the Select and Departmental Committees of this House and left a lot to be desired. How can an individual who is not known in law appear before a Committee and transact business on behalf of a Ministry or a State Department? For that reason, anchoring these offices in law is important. Article 234 (2)(a) says ‘subject to this Constitution and legislation.’ It does not isolate the Constitution from a legislation. It clarifies that the Constitution itself is not holistic unless it is improved through continuous legislation. Article 94(5) is clear that Parliament will make laws or create offices and challenge anything that comes up in law that can stand the test of time. Article 234 further says that establishment and abolishment of offices in the public service, and appointment of persons to hold office or act in those offices as well as confirmation of appointments, is the responsibility of the Public Service Commission. Article 132(4)(a) provides that the President, as otherwise provided for in the Constitution, may establish an office in the public service in accordance with the recommendations of the Public Service Commission. Those of us who sat in the said Committee realised that the President, on his own, cannot run this great country. He would be able to run Kenya with the help of other people who will come on his wings and support his administration. The Constitution does not say that the President will appoint those officers by himself alone. He will do so by consulting with the Public Service Commission. For generations, we have heard of the Public Service Commission associated with a very important office in this country – an office which is at times referred to as ‘Chief of Staff.’ This Office has never been anchored in law yet four previous successive administrations have had it. For the first time, the Kenya Kwanza Administration realised that we cannot have offices that exists outside the Constitution and legislation. That office is now being anchored in the laws of the land so that persons appointed to hold it can legitimately and constitutionally transact business on behalf of the Republic of Kenya. With those remarks, I support."
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