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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to support this Motion. In supporting I want to say the following: A proper reading of Article 79 of the Constitution would demonstrate that this Commission is very important in terms of the new leadership that is to be created under the new constitutional dispensation. Many times when we make reference to this Commission, there is the assumption that its work will be confined to issues of corruption in its narrow sense or issues of ethics. However, the responsibility and mandate of this Commission is, indeed, very wide. These constitutional provisions were necessary because this Commission is driven by the fact that in order to have a new Kenya, we have to have a new kind of leadership. Without a new kind of leadership in this country however many laws or commissions we create, we will not be able to create the kind of leadership that is spelt out under Cap.6 of the Constitution. I just want to point out one or two things that probably would seem very trivial but the standards that have been set in this Constitution requires of us, for this Commission to do its work the way it is supposed to do it, to live by the standards, requirements and values of this Constitution. If you allow me, it states as follows:- “Parliament shall enact legislation to establish an independent ethics and anti- corruption commission, which shall be and have the status and powers of a commission under Chapter Fifteen, for purposes of ensuring compliance with, and enforcement of, the provisions of this Chapter” This is important. This chapter has some provisions which all of us, as Members of Parliament, are violating every weekend when we are invited to harambee and we are given a gift and we take it away to our houses. If it is a goat, you slaughter it and revel after a harambee or a party. On the provisions that are dealing with financial probity of State officers, the following provisions are found in Article 76 of the Constitution. “A gift or donation to a State officer on a public or official occasion is a gift or donation to the Republic and shall be delivered to the State unless exempted under an Act of Parliament.” So, this weekend if you go for a harambee or public function, whether it is a State function and you are given a gift, if it is a goat or a watch, you should immediately surrender that gift to the Republic of Kenya so that you can be judged by the high standards of this Constitution."
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