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    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, MCCP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwengi Mutuse",
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    "content": "was nobody better to do that other than a Maasai woman lawyer who has been in the human rights circles all her time. Therefore, I persuade colleagues, Members of Parliament, that it is important to approve this nomination for eventual appointment. Hon. Chairman has stated that, as we look at the Constitution, it is also important to look at the Office of the Attorney-General Act. It designates the Solicitor-General as the accounting officer of the State Law Office. It also designates him as the administrative head of the State Law Office. The Constitution, on the other hand, gives the administrative leadership of State departments to principal secretaries. That is why we have recommended, in our Report to the appointing authority – that is His Excellency the President - that he issues an executive order on the organisation of the Government. It will clarify the roles of the new Principal Secretary for the State Department for Justice, Human Rights and Constitutional Affairs vis-a-vis the statutory mandate bestowed on the Solicitor-General under the Office of the Attorney-General Act. We are convinced that this is important to be done in order to cause operational harmony so that the two offices do not clash. Having said that, and because this is not about the appointee, we are well aware that it is within the powers of His Excellency the President to create offices. When an office is created and somebody is nominated to it, even if there is a clash, that cannot be put to them, but to the appointing authority. Hon. Judith Pareno met all the requirements and most importantly, she satisfies an important requirement of marginalisation of women from the Maasai Community. In fact, she will be among the first women from the Maasai Community to become principal secretaries in the Republic of Kenya. In the interest of affirmative action and of upholding professionalism, the nominee is a professional who was admitted as an advocate in the year 1996; in the interest of upholding the rights of women, because women also deserve to be principal secretaries; in the interest of mainstreaming issues of human rights in our governance systems, so that every other decision that is being taken by Government, there would be an element of human rights in it, I urge the House to consider the Motion and approve the nomination of Hon. Judith Pareno to be a principal secretary, as appointed."
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