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    "id": 1477949,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "EACC, and I do not want to have any doubt that EACC has nothing personal against Mr. David Kibet Kemei. I do not think anybody at the EACC has anything personal against this guy. However, they have written to Parliament objecting, okay, on the basis that there was a court judgement where the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) board was surcharged. I do not know how the Committee was able to navigate around that objection that was raised by the EACC. If that objection was from someone like Sen. Munyi Mundigi, I would say that maybe those are his political competitors. This is from the EACC. There is a chance that the guy heading the EACC, my good friend, does not know this gentleman but because; he is there to ensure that Chapter 6 of the Constitution is complied with, he had a constitutional obligation to disclose to Parliament that the person you are about to approve has these issues. The question I am asking is this; how are we going to encourage the EACC to look at Kenyans who have questionable integrity if every time they write to us, we ignore their objection? They will give up. They will say there is no need to write to Parliament. Our input will be ignored, even when they are backing it with a court decision. In 2007, this country was almost going to war, and there were concerted efforts to pass several legislations to ensure that going forward, we retain unity and oneness for the country called Kenya. There was even a Bill. I do not know whether that Bill was enacted. There was the Equal Opportunities Act. As the Chairman of the Law Society of Kenya then, I appeared in Parliament and made a presentation. We said, “please, pass this Bill so that every Kenyan when there is an opportunity, you give a Kenyan an opportunity.” Maybe we need to look at the Bill and have something like a ticking box. If today an Omogusii gets, tomorrow an Embu, the other day, a Kamba, and a Luo, like that so that; everybody feels like in this country, we are all getting an equal opportunity. So, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will interrogate this Report further before I cast my vote because I want to make a decision that gives hope to Kenyans. When the time comes, I will make a decision, but it must be a decision that gives hope to Kenyans, and we must, as a House, assure the country that we are objective, we are impartial, we have the best interest of this country at heart. I thank you."
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