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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Njee Muturi is a Member of the Law Society of Kenya and the East African Law Society; he has been a Deputy Director in charge of Co- ordination in the Office of Deputy Prime Minister. I think the Standing Orders are very clear, this House needs dignity. We are 349 hon. Members; we are not in a classroom. I am sure my colleagues will agree with me. If you came for a chorus answer, then you are in the wrong place. Let me be very frank, if you have not read the report, let hon. Members listen and we give each Member his time to contribute. I can continue now because I have made my point. The same nominee has participated in the International Visitor Leadership Programme of the United States in many core courses that pertains to it. This office of the Solicitor-General, who is the Accounting Officer in the State Law Office, must be transformed. We must have a Solicitor-General who will make sure the Kenya Government does not sign the so-called Anglo-leasing, Goldenberg and dubious contracts that the Kenyan taxpayers used to lose a lot of money on. With no doubt in my mind, with his integrity record, with his academic background and above all under the new Constitution, when we have only the State Law Office headed by the Attorney General, he will perform well. This country had the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and the Attorney General; there was a lot of overlapping. We have a State Law Office and the Principal Legal Government Advisor. There is even one time when we had two parallel governments and we did not know who to advise. Do you advise one principal or the other? This is one Government, one State Law Office, and a Solicitor-General who is nominated, vetted and approved by Parliament. In my honest opinion, one Njee Muturi, a man whom the Committee found to be suitable for this position, went through competitive bidding with the Public Service Commission."
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