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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "On the Assumption of Office of the President, the Bill has the objective of strengthening the composition of the Assumption of Office of the President Committee by incorporating the secretary to the National Security Council and the Principal Secretary in the state department responsible for matters relating to defence as additional members of this committee. The Joint Committee did not agree. It proposes that they amend by deleting the proposed paragraph (c) appearing in the proposed amendment to Section 5(2). The rationale was removing the National Security Advisor as a member of the Assumption of Office of the President Committee because the Office of the National Security Advisor is not statutory. Therefore, the proposal is to insert new amendments immediately after the proposed amendment of Section 5(2). They would delete the words “Cabinet Secretary” appearing in paragraph (c) and substituting it thereof with the words “Principal Secretary”. This is because the rest of the members of that committee are Principal Secretaries and the Act provided for the Cabinet Secretary. That will be cleaned up to make sure those sitting in this committee are Principal Secretaries. The Committee agrees on many amendments on the Office of the Attorney-General. In many jurisdictions in the Commonwealth, the Office of the Attorney-General is the official custodian of the government seal. I thank the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs because, in their wisdom, they have chosen to work like many other commonwealth democracies. The Bill proposes to amend the National Government Coordination Act to provide for the establishment and function of the Office of the Head of Public Service and the Chief Administrative Secretary. The Office of the Head of Public Service has been subjected to a lot of litigation in courts. Today, the current holder of that office is in court. The amendments in this Bill seek to create a legal framework that anchors the Office of the Head of Public Service and the Office of Chief Administrative Secretaries in law. You know that even the Office of the Chief Administrative Secretaries has been challenged in court. That matter is active in court. I will not dwell on it. In their wisdom, the Committee has designated the Chief Administrative Secretaries as public officers. It has also put an elaborate mechanism within which Chief Administrative Secretaries will be recruited and appointed into office."
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