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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to leave it at that but I believe that what transpired yesterday does not satisfy the constitutional and the legal requirement of approval. I want to plead with you that the process we have begun as a country, of Parliament approving nominees of the Executive, was never there before. Therefore, this Report cannot be compared with an adverse report about another public officer, or another Kenyan, whose name comes here and Parliament, in its wisdom, feels that the Committee is not right in accusing somebody. Therefore, after that Report was rejected, what obtained was that the names, or the record of the said persons, did not remain in the records of Parliament. This is a precedent we are trying to set as a country. I do not believe that if we treat these names as approved, future nominations for interviewing by Parliamentary Committees will be properly safeguarded by this House. This House must carry out its responsibility in the implementation of the Constitution. We must do the right thing for Kenyans. When aspersions are cast on a nominee, this requires us to go an extra mile to prove or disapprove them. What this House did yesterday was to give the Government a chance to go back and investigate the aspersions and allegations levelled against the individual. Parliament cannot investigate them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if the appointing authorities feel that they are not adverse enough, they can follow the normal channel and bring the names back to the House for another consideration. Therefore, I submit that a negative Motion did not constitute an approval of the nominees. I thank you and wait for your ruling."
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