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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with regard to the Auctioneers Act, we had a meeting with the two conflicting auctioneers associations. Having consulted with them, we have been made to understand that they have now agreed that only one association will exist. So, the amendment proposed by the Attorney-General is no longer valid. We shall be proposing to delete it so that there is no mushrooming of new auctioneers' bodies. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the three hon. Members, who have spoken so far, elaborated why the proposals made by our Committee and the Attorney General would be August 23, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3459 enhancing devolution of development to the constituencies. So, I need not give a rationale for that. I was glad when the Mover of this Bill admitted that they will be supporting the deletion of the amendments on the Industrial Property Act, 2001. I think our people come first and whoever owns patents or licences should not hold our people at ransom. We should be able to give our citizens affordable medication. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my only concern is that this amendment had been proposed in the 2006 Version of this Bill. If my friend, the Attorney-General who has just walked out, had read that report he should not have published the same. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are proposing extensive deletions of the proposals made by the Attorney-General on the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act. As I said in the beginning and as has been elaborated by Mr. Muturi and Mr. Wetangula, when we had a meeting with the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) commissioners, we felt that those provisions are not justified. Since they have already talked about the issue of receivership and making KACC police, I will only be focusing on the areas we had not spoken about. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the amendments that are proposed by the KACC is that if the Advisory Board proposes the name of a new director of KACC and Parliament or anybody delays appointing the new director, the previous director would stay in office until the new one is put in place. Our experience when appointing Justice Ringera was that the Government deliberately delayed for nine months. So, in that case, there was no director. Imagine if the current director is not re-appointed and, the Government or whoever, decides to delay the appointment of a new director, that means the incumbent director will be given leeway to be in office for extra time as the Government sorts itself. So, we shall be proposing the deletion of that because we think it would provide room for mischief by the Government. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are also going to propose an amendment to deal with the problem that this House experienced with regard to the appointment of Dr. Rotich. We will be providing for an insertion of a clause in the First Schedule that states as follow: \"Provided that if the President refuses or fails to appoint the person concerned to the office in respect of which the approval was given within 14 days of that approval, the appointment shall be deemed to have been made upon expiry of that period\". Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we know that Dr. Rotich is now very happy at the East African Community (EAC). However, we think that using Parliament to vet people and then refusing to appoint them means that the spirit of vetting has not been accepted or internalised by the current Executive. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would not need to go through the extensive amendments that we have proposed on the Public Officers Ethics Act because Mr. Muturi went too deeply into them. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we will be proposing a small amendment, basically typographical, in the Sexual Offences Act, so that we can separate the offences of indecent acts with adults from that of an indecent act with children. With those many remarks, I beg to support with the proposed amendments."
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