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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caroli Omondi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I do not know how many minutes I have. Maybe, seven. I will try to be brief. People are asking me to donate to them some of my minutes, but I am not sure if I have the power to do so. Nevertheless, I will try to do my best. My contribution will not be so much on the qualifications of the candidate. I just want to talk about the process of vetting and how we could improve it so that this House may be better enabled to discharge its functions more effectively. Under Standing Orders195 and 204, any Member is entitled to participate in any vetting committee and raise questions. However, I do not think most of the Members are aware of that provision. I would like to suggest that when we deal with vetting processes, the leadership of the House, through the Speaker, should communicate to Members and invite them to participate in the process if they have any issues they would want addressed. I would also like to note that this Report does not address certain important issues. The way the integrity question has been addressed is not exhaustive. We need to have a deep dive into the working business and history of nominees. I am taken aback a little with what the House has been doing. It has just been looking at the letters from certain Government agencies like the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). We do not exercise our powers under Article 125 of the Constitution to ask for more information by accessing public records or private records dealing with business and work tenure of most of those nominees. Relying on letters from the EACC to say that we have no question on the integrity of a candidate is not good enough. We should go deeper and invoke Article 125 of the Constitution by truly interrogating the issue of integrity of most of the nominees that are brought to this House. Secondly, if you look at this Report, questions on domain knowledge are not very exhaustively discussed. Again, as a House, we need to do much better than this and interrogate every candidate on their domain knowledge on the sectors that they are being tasked to manage. There is no reference to transnational crimes in this Report and the capability of the candidate to deal with issues to do with counter-terrorism and corruption. Those matters have just been mentioned. So, it is not a very exhaustive Report, in my view. You cannot just look at a candidate and say that you have got the right person for the position of Inspector-General of Police to deal with the current challenges in our criminal sector. Finally, because I want to save time, there is nothing in the Report that tells us about the nominee's planned policy initiatives to deal with fundamental issues in that sector. What kind of reforms does he intend to undertake? We do not have a flavour of what his views or what his philosophy on crime and crime prevention are, including his views about the welfare The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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