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    "id": 403073,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/403073/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, my plea would be that these amendments are not good for this country. As a matter of fact, looking at the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons, this is a Bill that is a candidate for defeat. These amendments are making this Bill a candidate for defeat. If you want us--- I want to correct that--- Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you were right to say that it will require six months. If we feel as a country that we need to re-introduce this Bill or a similar one, we can still do it, with the approval of the Speaker, as he has done with the VAT (Amendment) Bill. He has already approved and it is being printed. So, this House should not fear defeating this amendment. Let us send a signal to those people with ill intentions and evil schemes to take away the powers that the people of Kenya, through a referendum, gave to an independent commission and give it to some individuals whose loyalty we do not know. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Cabinet Secretary is an appointee of the President, fine; but you cannot give such a person more powers more than the President. You are giving the Cabinet Secretary to direct and control a commission, even the President does not have such powers. In fact, there is nowhere in law where the President can direct and control any commission. Not even the Public Service Commission (PSC) or the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) can do that. What you are doing here is like having a Cabinet Secretary controlling the work of the PSC. This is unacceptable! Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I oppose."
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