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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Chair, I rise to support this amendment. The Committee has also proposed to align the term of the Director-General of the FRC with that of similar offices – like that of the Director of EACC. What happens in countries like ours is that if you are serving a two term or a term that is renewable, for example, serving a term of four years that is renewable, you get compromised in your first term because you want to be in the business of pleasing people and not doing what you ought to do. That was the basis for the decision that the CEO of the EACC should serve for one term of six years so that when one is given that office, he will work impartially without the need to please anybody for renewal of his term. Because of this office's sensitivity, it is also important that we do not abruptly end the current Director-General's term by operationalising this law. He should be allowed a two-year transition period to finish his six-year term before we embark on recruiting a new Director- General. I support that transitional clause."
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