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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Finance",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support. I do not know any of these guys but if the Committee says they are good, who am I to say they are not good? However, we have a problem and I would like to ask the Attorney-General as soon as practically possible to set up a committee to look into our Constitution. Our Constitution requires certain amendments and the first one is that we made a mistake. We thought we are helping but we actually made a mistake when we said that all appointments should reflect regional and ethnic balance and many others. That is a recipe for chaos and that is exactly what is happening because it becomes difficult to justify why number one, two or three missed out and yet another person number four, five or seven is then appointed. That is the basic culprit. We thought we were helping by saying the above but the reason why the United States of America (USA) has done so well is because they consider merit and merit only. It does not matter whether all the top officials come from one sub-location, village or family but the issue is: Are they competent? Are they the best? That is what we need. We need meritocracy. That is what we need and not this issue that we put into the Constitution. We actually ethnicized our Constitution. We thought we were helping, but now it is coming to hit us back. This is not the first commission. We had one where number one, two and three were not picked on the basis of ethnic, regional, tribal and gender balance and so many other considerations. So, my request is that a time has come for the Attorney-General to set up a committee to look at some of these issues. If this country is to become a working nation, let us consider merit and merit and merit alone! With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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