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    "id": 287094,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am on a point of order. I have great admiration for some of the persons whose names have been proposed by the Committee. Indeed, one of the persons whose name has been proposed was my executive director for many years. So, I am not in doubt about their competences but the law is the law. It must be followed. So, I am not raising issues of competences because most of the people whose names have been proposed are extremely competent. One of them was actually my junior at Limuru Girls School. So, they are people whose competences I know. What I would want is that we must be clear about the law and about the procedure. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am almost agreeable to the Committee in all its recommendations, except that it seems to be contradictory. In the first recommendation, the Committee says that the nomination of these persons is unconstitutional and, in the third recommendation, the same Committee is asking us to accept other names which were not forwarded to Parliament. The Committee is directing the two principals on what to do. Looking at the Constitution, the Sixth Schedule, Section 29(2), on new appointments, it says:- “29(2) Unless this Schedule prescribes otherwise, when this Constitution requires an appointment to be made by the President with the approval of the National Assembly, until after the first elections under this Constitution, the President shall, subject to the National Accord and Reconciliation Act, appoint a person after consultation with the Prime Minister and with the approval of the National Assembly.”"
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