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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Statement by the Committee on Finance and Budget, which was read by Dr. Boni Khalwale. I appreciate this Committee for putting in place a credible process of trying to vet the nominee for the SRC. We would be wise to follow the example of this Committee, which is led by Sen. Ali Roba, and take some of the examples they have given us today as a nation. We saw over the weekend the vetting process of Cabinet Secretaries. I would wish that some of these principles and steps that the Committee on Finance and Budget took would have been taken as well. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as Sen. Miraj said that this was not a Cabinet, but a closet and the reason was that procedures were not duly followed, especially in the minds of Kenyans. Listening to several Kenyans, the overwhelming view of the public was that this was a political pawn game that served only to confirm the fidelity of politicians to their friends, and not to the act of building a stronger nation. They said that was a sham and a mockery, with Parliament having abdicated its duty of challenging the genuineness of this process, unlike what the Committee on Finance and Budget has shown us today. Kenyans said it was a cosmetic exercise with a shallow questioning, with the Chairperson even throwing bail at the nominees on numerous occasions and even answering on their behalf at times, directly or with anecdotes of times gone by."
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