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    "id": 40397,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was saying that I want to take this opportunity to thank the Members of CIOC for the great work they have done. That required a lot of patience and listening. It also required a lot of sobriety. We must commend the Committee. The end-process that we are debating today is a product--- First of all, we started with the Atwoli-led committee. At this final stage, to cast aspersions on a process that we have invested in, in my opinion, we will be failing as a country. There are issues that we must address. The issue of public vetting is a new phenomenon in any constitutional dispensation. What has happened to those three great Kenyans has taught us a lesson as Parliamentarians. We must come up with rules, modus operandi that will be fair to the nominees; that will protect the nominees from public lynching and from agents of impunity who do not see anything good in any organization or any other person, other than themselves. They have condemned Parliament, the Presidency, the Prime Minister and every other institution. The question is: Who is right other than themselves? Those voices must not be heard. They must shut up because 40 million Kenyans understand. I want to appeal to those who have graduated to this “Mr. Right”--- I think this reality must dawn on them. I want to appreciate the person who heads the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs, and I am not in any way imputing improper motive on the Minister. Every other institution and every other person cannot be wrong. Parliament has been condemned. Today, as you know, we do not have Bills. We would have sat down here and debated many Bills. I understand that they are limited. It is not fair to destroy institutions. It is not fair, just because we want to project ourselves as people who have reformed and we want to destroy everybody else--- This must not be allowed to happen in this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to say the following: Tobiko has not been given an independent office to manage. He has worked under the Attorney-General’s office. Under the new constitutional dispensation, he will be a man on his own. He will be independent and accountable to the sovereign people of the Republic of Kenya. Let us give him an opportunity to serve this country. That is the only way we will know whether he can deliver. I support."
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