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"speaker_title": "Hon. Wanami Wamboka",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to support the Chairman, but just like what other Hon. Members have said, it is indeed disheartening that a Committee of 20 people cannot have one another person present to support the Chairman on the Floor of the House. There is a problem. We leave it to our leaders to guide us well because this Parliament must function properly. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to speak from the bottom of my heart. We have talked about institutions but, for me, we can start from the top. What is at the top? The Cabinet. I want to plead with this administration. The Kenya Kwanza Administration or now the broad-based administration, please, every Kenyan has a right to feel part and parcel of this country. If you look at the history of why revolutions started, it is about resources. It is about one feeling they do not have their person at the table. It is not only immoral, but amoral, to have a Cabinet of Kenya with more than 50 per cent from two communities and yet, we have more than 43 communities in this country. We want the spirit of the Constitution to cascade from the top to the ministries and to the Public Service. That, when a cabinet secretary is making appointments, he must look at Kenya. It would worry no one. Kenyans will not fight after every election if, indeed, the leaders adhere to that constitutional requirement. It does not matter who sits at the top, but we will get resources as taxpayers - our share. It does not matter who sits there. What is due to my community will come to my community. It starts at the top. You raised a very important point, Hon. Temporary Speaker, even about Parliament. That we create those laws but, at the end of the day, what does Parliament look like? Does it look like Kenya? Does it represent the mosaic of that fabric that Kenya is made of? No! I will be bringing an issue to this Floor, about the Kenya Revenue Authority. We spoke about the appointments that were done at the Kenya Revenue Authority in this House. A matter was taken to court where almost 70 per cent of the people who were recruited at the Kenya Revenue Authority came from two communities. The matter went to court. The court stopped the appointment of those people. But what worries me most is that, as we speak, those people are still working. They are in office. That is the impunity of the highest order. If the administration cannot listen to this House and the courts, then what country are we breeding? I support my brother and say that we must come up with more punitive laws to support this Constitution. However, if an appointing officer does not adhere or does not do that which the spirit of this Constitution envisioned, what must be done to that officer? Those are people who are appointed by the people. We come here and make noise that they have appointed through obscure ways but, at the end of the day, nothing happens. For us in the Committee of this House that I chair, we are growing towards very punitive measures. If you are the head of an institution and appointing authority and you do not adhere to the law, we will recommend to this House that you are not fit to sit in that position. I am happy with the tone and the spirit of my good brother. I am happy that it is coming from the Government side, and this is what we are talking about. When we were in the leadership retreat the other day, we spoke about the allocation of resources. That is why people fight. That, if Raila Odinga is not the President, I will not have my fair share. If William Ruto is not the President, I will not have my fair share. We must stop that and begin with us and this House. I urge the House to develop a non-partisan approach to these issues. At the end of the day, we are Members of Parliament, whether we are seated on the Majority or the Minority side. For 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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