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    "id": 306826,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kenneth",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 167,
        "legal_name": "Peter Kenneth",
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    "content": " Yes, Article 79; we should have a complete Bill, and which does not contradict certain sections of Chapter Six. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have now moved to a situation where the threshold, or the bar, has been set very high. We have reached a point where it is okay to ask Kenyans to get a certificate of good conduct. It is okay to ask Kenyans to get clearance from the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). It is okay to ask for quite a number of compliances. We must show that leadership from a top down, and not from a bottom up, approach. When we create a Leadership and Integrity Act it should not be about us, but about the whole country, our children, future generations and the discipline that we want to see in our country. We have even seen this threshold at the Judiciary. We have seen judges vetted. We have seen the situation in which the Deputy Chief Justice and Deputy President of the Supreme Court is; this is because the threshold is very high; she has had to undergo certain procedures because of her integrity. It is not an issue of whether somebody is trying to be white or whiter or playing to the gallery, as we have heard in this House. It is an issue of setting a base. It is an issue of setting that threshold, so that we are all part of it, and so that we can ensure we have integrity in all echelons of leadership in our country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in as much as we enact, or try to enact, laws we must ensure we have a top down approach, and everybody is affected by this particular Bill, which we want to put into an Act, so that everybody can be subject to some form of vetting. Everybody who has spoken here has spoken of previous indiscipline. The only way we can curb indiscipline, the only way we can have a fresh start, is by ensuring that we have a Bill on leadership and integrity that covers every sphere, and not just Parliament, the external people, or people who are out there; everybody should be subject to a rigorous vetting process. Therefore, as I said it is about posterity; it is not about the Tenth Parliament; it is about future Parliaments. As I said at the start, we must not bring down the threshold. The bar must remain very high. With those few words, I express my reservations."
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