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    "id": 287111,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Muigai",
    "speaker_title": "The Attorney-General",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Githu Muigai",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, unfortunately this is a case where a well intentioned Committee, apparently acting in good faith, has exceeded its legal authority and mandate. On a plain reading of the law, it is quite clear that the power to make a nomination where there is a rejection of any or all of the nominees resides with the President of the Republic. The option open to this Committee when it developed any reservations about any aspect of the nomination was to reject either an individual person or all the persons and refer this decision back to the President. The President would have been obliged to make a fresh nomination in terms of the short list already created by the panel. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is the law; in so stating the law obviously, I make no personal finding about the suitability of any or all of the parties that were nominated."
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