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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member is completely out of order. That is not a point of order. I am simply speaking, first, as a Member of the Appointments Committee; but I am also saying that this is the first time we are conducting this kind of exercise. We have lessons to learn from the exercise. We do not have any precedent from which we could have borrowed. So, instead of us beginning to say that the Committee did not do a good job, we should be saying that in fact we did very well, because we have never done something like this before for Cabinet Secretaries. We need to ask ourselves what more we can do with that law, so that we can empower the Committee to do more than just conducting oral interviews. There are also certain recommendations that we have made, which hon. Members need to take into consideration. We wrote to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and asked for reports on each of those candidates but the Commission never gave us any reports. The question is, if the EACC cannot give us timely reports on nominees, how do we believe that they have the capacity to authoritatively claim to know anything about anybody for that matter? Do they have the capacity to avail reports to Parliament when we need them? Therefore, with those very many remarks, I want to say that I am happy with the job that the Appointments Committee did. I urge hon. Members to seriously consider the amendment by hon. Shebesh."
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