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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muite",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kibugi Muite",
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    "content": "That is true, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. In fact, everybody takes cover, including the magistrate. These snakes actually come from the wooden floor, and even the prisoners run. Everybody runs for their dear life, including the lawyers. Why does this happen? It is because the Judiciary does not have its own budget to renovate courtrooms and to build new courts. So, when we subject them to these approvals, let us also give them financial autonomy. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we vetted this particular individual very well and we are satisfied. The Report has been there that she is an excellent lady. The vacancy has been there for a very long time and it needs to be filled now. I appeal to hon. Members to get copies of our vetting manuals. They are available in Room No.8 so that they can go through them to prepare for debate. I hope that the House Business Committee will find it fit to bring that Report for debate and amendment or rejection by hon. Members so that we can prepare ourselves in advance. I am very confident that given the ardour with which the President called on hon. Members of Parliament and the civil society to get together and dialogue and get to a consensus on minimum reforms simultaneously with the comprehensive reforms, which we want to entrench in the Constitution, we are on the verge of a breakthrough. We all are going to agree. Once we sit on Tuesday, we will agree and start moving forward. When we agree and put in these essential reforms, Ihope that one of the issues that we will, at least, agree on is the necessity for Parliamentary approval of all key public sector jobs. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you have heard hon. Members talk correctly on the need for dual citizenship so that we can encourage our brothers and sisters who are outside this country to invest more in this country. I am very pleased to learn that when hon. Kimunya recently went to talk to our brothers and sisters in the USA, everywhere he went, he was being told: \"Dual citizenship! Dual Citizenship!\" I hope that as a result of the experience that he had there, he is now going to be converted and that he will support this issue of essential reforms. I also hope that he is going to walk away from being a hardliner against the reforms to supporting them. It is for the benefit of the country. We want all Kenyans to benefit out there and to benefit also as Kenyans. We want them to have dual citizenship. However, the reason why I mentioned this is because those Kenyans want to vote. They want to participate in elections as voters. However, you will find hesitation. Why is that the case? There is hesitation because all our High Commissioners and ambassadors are appointed, single- handedly, by one individual. So, can we trust that these High Commissioners and ambassadors can conduct elections, in their respective places, in a neutral and impartial manner without rigging? That is the big question. That also explains the hesitation. If we subject our High Commissioners and ambassadors to Parliamentary approval, they will go there to serve the nation and not the person who appointed them. When we come to that, I shall be the first one to support the right to vote by people outside the country because I will be confident that we have ambassadors and High Commissioners who can conduct impartial and neutral elections by those people in the diaspora. I would like to urge hon. Members to adopt this Report and ask hon. Mukiri to second."
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