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    "id": 391821,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am sure that when hon. Mbadi served as a supervisor for eight months, we witnessed the height of sycophancy in Kenya. I want to confirm that fact. So, sycophancy did not start in this Government. If you allow me, I will even read out the constitutional provisions. What is important is not how loud you shout but rather how you interpret the law. The Constitution does not belong to him. I will read out Article 132(4) (a). I want to be very categorical that these are the methods by which appointments are made, under the Constitution. I want to repeat that there is no instance when the President and the Government broke the law. We are using the same Constitution that all of us stood for in 2007. I want him to listen to what the Constitution says. Offices created or appointments exclusively made by the Public Service Commission are offices established under Article 234. Anybody who has a copy of the Constitution may read Article 234. To make it clear, this forms the bulk of the public service. This is, again, done within Article 232. The second category is offices in the public service expressly created by the Constitution. Appointments are made by the President through a recommendation from the Public Service Commission. These appointments are, again, done under Article 155. Examples of such offices are those of Principal Secretaries. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the third category is the public service offices established by the Constitution, appointments to which are made by the President, with Parliament’s approval. So, the Public Service Commission has no role on the offices provided for under Article 155 – Principal Secretaries. These are offices which are created by the President and then Parliament approves the nominees for appointment. The final category is that of offices in the public service created by the President, as in the case of the Chief of Staff and Head of Public Service; this is done under Article The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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