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    "id": 290458,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/290458/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the Constitutional Offices Remuneration Act which is sought to be amended, so that the former Commissioners of the Interim Independent Boundaries Commission (IIBC) may be paid salaries and allowances, we know that they were receiving salaries and allowances and, at that time, there were no requirements that they be paid in a certain way. Salaries were being set by the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs, including those for the IIEC. Why are we singling out the IIBC here, that they be paid in a certain way? Unless it is explained to us what difficulties there are on a commission that wound up, we do not want to pass laws that retrospectively add salaries to the date of appointment to people who left when we are unable to add to our Civil Service or, indeed, any public worker any money. These are questions we are asking. The Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill is a very dangerous creature; it comes to save because it allows you to mend very many laws. But something can be sneaked in here and there and before you know it, you have sold the country in the course of that amendment. I am asking hon. Members; let us be very, very vigilant. We are not refusing to have anybody who has worked for Kenyans to be paid, but there should not be any special perks for anybody that are not applicable to the rest of the people."
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