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    "content": "First of all, Members of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee are not known for working together and coming to a consensus. If you see this Committee united and unanimous on a decision, then that decision must be right. It is high time that this House also trusts the Committees. There is a reason why we form Committees in this House. It is because in the plenary like this one we may not go into the details of interviewing and vetting these particular nominees. Today we are being told of some qualifications of some people who have gone to school with others. Some of us have not gone to school with these people. These people cannot appear before us here in Parliament. We gave the task to the Committee to vet these personalities and bring a report to us. For me I will trust the report of this Committee. I want to say something about “passion.” We are not just appointing any other commission. The commission we are putting in place today is the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission. It is not a question about your qualifications. It is not a question about how many offices you have held in this country. It is about determination to eradicate the culture and the dragon of corruption. We have got it wrong many times. We have had so many heads of anti-corruption bodies. This time this House will not be treated kindly by Kenyans if we neglect our duty and push through nominees over whom a committee of this House has expressed doubts as to their passion in terms of fighting corruption. I want to correct my friend that passion has nothing really to do with love. That is a corruption of the word “passion”. I would ask my colleague to really get the correct meaning of word “passion.” You are corrupting the word “passion” to use it in other ways and that was not the initial intention. I read here in the report that one of the persons is being spoken of as being someone who has moved revenue from Kshs200 billion to Kshs600 billion. Some of us are still questioning whether this country can only collect Kshs600 billion in a year. This country has the capacity to collect over Kshs1 trillion. Let us not be blinded by the fact that someone has been working in the KRA, and the KRA has been collecting Kshs600 billion. This same individual has worked with AFC. It went under when he was working there. Why are we not mentioning that one? We, as a Parliament, have a responsibility to this country. If we are doubting the capability of individuals, let us return to the sender. Let the appointing authority bring us other qualified Kenyans. We have so many of them. Even if you want someone from your region, there are so many from those regions who can still qualify for this position. Application alone does not show passion. Kenyans are looking for jobs and they apply left, right and centre. If you look at most of these adverts, the applications that are received are so many. It is not every Kenyan who applies who has passion to do the job. With those many remarks, I beg to support."
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