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    "content": "This matter was removed in a deliberation with all the stakeholders, including the CIC, the Kenya Law Reform Commission, and the Cabinet on the understanding that the whole issue of the declaration of income is already included within the Public Officer Ethics Act which has not been repealed and which has been intertwined with this Bill. We are saying that the Public Officer Ethics Act is an integral part of this code. So, whatever is already contained within the Public Officer Ethics Act becomes automatically part of this Leadership and Integrity Bill. Declarations of income are already covered. There are those that are already in place. There are already issues in terms of when they go on. For purposes of consistency, you only maintain the declarations in one law and when the two are harmonized, you will distinguish what State officers do and what public officers do, but noting for clarity that every State officer is a public officer. By already including within public officers, you are now capturing the declaration that we are doing now, which will have a transitional point into the future. What we are doing here now is creating a situation and there will be a lacuna. So, it is important that we explain because an issue has arisen here that the Cabinet removed without the benefit of knowing why it was removed."
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