Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 306835,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/306835/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 202,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Muigai",
    "speaker_title": "The Attorney-General",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 408,
        "legal_name": "Githu Muigai",
        "slug": "githu-muigai"
    },
    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I start by saying that I support the Bill. It is not a perfect Bill; it is a consensus document. In matters that are deeply political such as this issue, it is not possible sometimes to get a position where there is total and unreserved agreement. This Bill is the result of work done by the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs - and I must commend Mr. Wamalwa for the leadership he provided - the Kenya Law Reform Commission (KLR), the Attorney-General’s Chambers and, indeed - and it may come as a surprise but it is true - the Commission on the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC). Long hours went into preparing the final Bill that has come to the House. Indeed, some of the sittings went up to midnight under the auspices of the Office of the Prime Minister. Our hands are tied by the language of the Constitution itself. We cannot, even if we desired to do so now, rewrite Chapter Six so as to expand the scope of the demands on ethics, integrity and leadership. It may very well be that when we were in Bomas and after, we did not write Chapter Six with the robustness that now, with the benefit of hindsight, we ought to have done. Doing the best we can with the limited material that we have, I believe that this Bill represents a good first step towards creating a statutory regime for regulating the ethical and other standards of the leadership of our country. As we debated this Bill in the Cabinet sub-Committee it became clear - and we received advice from KLR - that, indeed, this may very well be an interim statute. We were advised that it will be necessary in the very near future to consolidate all the laws in this"
}