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    "id": 287079,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/287079/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Namwamba",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "My final question is that the committee has proceeded to make a very curious recommendation. When you look at the list of recommendations by the committee on page 22, among the recommendations that it makes and I quote recommendation No.2:- “His Excellency the President may consider nominating the chairperson of the National Police Service Commission who should have a sound legal background given that the mandate of the commission has quasi judicial functions, from one of the three persons named hereunder who have been duly interviewed by the committee”. The committee actually admits that it has gone beyond the statutory mandate of vetting and actually conducted interviews. That is the language of the committee itself. Who meets the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution? It is Jean Njeri Kamau, Mr. Murshid M. Mohammed and Mr. Johnstone M. Kavuludi? Of course, that recommendation in itself does confirm that the committee overstepped its vetting mandate and engaged in interview – a role that is specific to the panel. It also raises the fundamental question as to whether the committee can go beyond the mandate specified in Section 66 which says:- “The National Assembly shall within 21 days of the day it next sits after receipt of the names of the applicants under sub-section 5, vet and consider all the applicants and may approve or reject any or all of them.”"
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