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    "speaker_name": "Muturi",
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        "legal_name": "Justin Bedan Njoka Muturi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I recall the circumstances under which Mr. Mohammed Abdullahi Ahmednassir resigned his position as the Chairman of the Advisory Board. Indeed, this is a matter that exercised the minds of many of us who took active debate in making the appointments of both the Director and the four Deputy Directors to the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission. The point being made is that if the House is satisfied that they have clearly followed all the rules and procedures requiring them to make certain decisions, it behoves us to own up to the decisions of the Committee. If any of us has any reservations against any decisions which have been arrived at by the Committee, it is only fair that they make those reservations known on this very Floor. It is quite fresh in our minds that yesterday we adopted the Report of the Special Audit by the Public Accounts Committee and those who had reservations or arguments in opposition made them here, but they agreed that they might be bound by the decision of the House if it is taken 570 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 19, 2006 on the basis of the votes. In the particular case of the appointment, nomination or approval by this House of Dr. Julius Rotich, there was not a single voice in opposition. It was, therefore, strange for us to hear later that hon. Members of this very House, mainly those who are comfortably seated on the Executive row, coming here to argue later, belatedly, that there are serious reservations which they never even presented to the Committee. I hope that as we debate the current Report on the approval of the appointment of the person to replace Mr. Abdullahi, we will not then be simply acting in vain. I want to plead with everyone that, if you have any information regarding the suitability or otherwise of a nominee approved by the Committee, they better say it here or forever remain silent. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think it is good news for us as, a House, to know that the Departmental Committee for the Administration of Justice and Legal Affairs has made efforts to learn from others that go through these processes. I can recall that the Chairman said that we were charting a course in some uncharted waters in the past by this House. It is gratifying to hear that the Committee has made efforts to go and learn from others who regularly make approvals of appointments into various public sector jobs in the USA and also at the state level in the State of New York. I think we should be looking forward, of course, to a time when the Committee will be laying that other Report on the Table so that we debate it also. If we will feel that there are areas that may require amendments, in light of our peculiar composition in Kenya which may not necessarily reflect the composition in the USA, then again the decision to amend or adopt in whole will be made in this House without people going to make interventions in other quarters where the House as a whole in the plenary would not have been involved. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to second the Motion."
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