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    "id": 38449,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/38449/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "On the issue of the shaping of the criteria, I believe that we will add value if we included a requirement that a candidate should declare whether, before going into office, he maintains a bank account outside Kenya. This is important because we can match it with what he does in Kenya to see whether it can be reason for him to have those kind of savings abroad. If he declares that he has such an account, we should go further and ask him how he made the money that he is stashing out there away from the local economy. Finally but not the least, as I support this Bill, I would like to ask my colleagues that if we are setting these high standards against public officers, we must make a decision and remember that we, as leaders of political parties under this new Constitution, have been given power to nominate youth, women and disabled people to the Senate, the National Assembly and county governments. We should, therefore, start thinking on how we can help leaders of political parties so that when they nominate those people to public office, they nominate them using the same standards, lest again we shift to a situation whereby, yes, we have checked what is done by the President, but then leave the Leader of the Majority Party in the House and the Leader of the Opposition to have a field day in appointing people who are just friends and cronies or people who will not add value to public governance."
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