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    "id": 342652,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/342652/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Muigai",
    "speaker_title": "The Attorney-General",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 408,
        "legal_name": "Githu Muigai",
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    "content": " I had negotiated something with the Chair of the Committee and I had requested her if we could save Clause 5(2) where they say we delete “shall not be under the direction or control of any person or authority”. I had explained here and I thought my learned colleague and distinguished friend had sympathized with the position. The Attorney-General does a lot of work that requires independent reflection on the law and if he were to be under the direction of any other officer, it is conceivable that he could be required to come up with an outcome determined by somebody else. Whether somebody else is his immediate boss, the President or the Vice-President or the Cabinet, I think that there is a little danger there because what the Constitution intended is that in terms of institutional authority, the Attorney-General is a Member of the Cabinet acting collectively with Cabinet on Government policy. In his role as the legal advisor, it is intended that he should give independent and unbiased professional opinion. So, I would recommend that we delete the words as proposed to Clause 5(2) and that should apply mutatis mutandis ."
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