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"content": "The issue of passion has been dismissed. However, without blowing our trumpets, I would say that when I was the Chairman of Nairobi Water, I was the first chairman of a public corporation to initiate a code of ethics signed in the presence of KACC Deputy Director, Dr. Smokin Wanjala, one proprietor, Manu Chandaria and the Ambassador of Sweden in this country. Initiative is captured in this report. The nominee has to show passion, initiative and drive. If you are talking about breaking from the KACC that was headed by Dr. Lumumba, whom we hounded out from the position through this House, then we must also say that there is need to break completely from those who were working with him and create a new scenario and human resource that would give a difference. Breaking from the past is important because it creates confidence. In my advice to the Chief Justice that never was and the Controller of Budget who never was and the DPP who never was, I said that it was also incumbent upon them to show humility, initiative and decline those nominations. Today, they walk in the streets with their fully coloured CVs that they never succeeded although they were given approval by the Executives of this country and endorsed by a section of this Legislature. With regard to the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, for the first time, we have a Committee comprising of people that we highly respect. The membership is very educated and eminent. But we also know that the Committee brings individuals from different parts of this country and from political backgrounds that are very varied. It is very unique that they are unanimous. If not for anything else, I am completely and fully persuaded by the unanimity of that Committee that there is a portion and an issue that cannot be ignored. However, we are creating political convenience. In fact, can I say without naming names, that when I saw the individuals who were very loud on Thursday, last week in opposition to the Report of this Committee, I told myself, âson of a woman, son of Wachera, this must be the reason why you must support this Report more stronglyâ. Sometimes we say that if you want to know the character of a person, look at the friendship. Look at the company of those individuals. These are individuals who are normally very quiet, very limited and not very eloquent on issues of graft. Individuals who were entrusted with the fight against graft when Kenya was a pinnacle, a crescendo and citadel of corruption are now very loud. I asked myself, âwhat hope do I have; what are we telling our people?â By the way, I am surprised when we speak, we give CVs and say that this is my constituent and I come from this area. There is an interview that gave somebody, George Kihoro, No.1 in this country. For reasons unknown to many people, he was dropped. He happens to come from Gusiiland. Now, there is another one called Okongâo Omogeni who is now No.1 and he is also being dropped. I am asking myself, âwhat are we telling the people of Gusiiland; that to produce eminent, passionate and compassionate lawyers is wrong? That we must go and look for No.2?â Just the other day, we dropped the name of another woman in this House who is an eminent professor just because her surname happens to come from a certain region originally."
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