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    "id": 241669,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muite",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kibugi Muite",
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    "content": "We may not like individuals manning other institutions. Let us remove those individuals. However, those institutions must remain independent and autonomous, including the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR). There is one proposal talking about the independence of this institution. You will remember this House has had a long standing stalemate. We approved the names of the director and four deputy directors to the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission. I thought we did so on the Floor of this House. The rationale of the statute is that once Parliament has approved, the role of the President is formal and ceremonial. It is just like in the USA. If the Senate rejects a name that has been taken by the President, the President cannot go round behind the Senate and appoint that individual. The rationale is that once a name comes here and Parliament has approved it, the role of the President is purely formal. It is to gazette and appoint. That is what the law says! However, in the case of Dr. Rotich, this House vetted and approved yet up to now, the KACC is operating without a Deputy Commissioner in charge of finance because the President refused to gazette it. So, the Committee thought that time has come for this House to assert its independence and authority by proposing an amendment here that in respect of an appointment that this House has approved, if the President does not within 14 days carry out his formal function of gazetting that person, then that person will automatically stand appointed on expiration of the 14 days. That will resolve this stalemate."
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