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    "id": 43259,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muriithi",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Industrialization",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 91,
        "legal_name": "Ndiritu Muriithi",
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    "content": " Mr. Chairman, Sir, as we await for the amendment to the amendment, I have been seeking an opportunity to support the original amendment by the Committee. The presentation has been made here about issues of corporate governance. This Commission is not a board of directors. Article 88 of the Constitution that has been referred to extensively, Article 88(3) provides that anybody serving in this Commission shall not hold another public office. This suggests that this Commission is seen by the Constitution as a full time body that is making critical decisions and managing the affairs of conducting elections and other functions. Mr. Chairman, Sir, I fully agree that in trying to have wording that can create different interpretations by the secretariat and by the Commission, we are setting ourselves up for a circumstance where the CEO or the Secretary to this Commission can take one decision on election day and the Commission takes a different decision. We must have a focused responsibility, so that there can be no loophole of two parties who are supposed to be part of the same management process--- Let us not burry our heads under the sand. For example, just this afternoon, we have been chastised by the Speaker as the Government because Ministers in one Government are contradicting themselves here on the dispatch box. Therefore, the likelihood of having a secretariat that is pulling in one direction and a Commission that is pulling in a different direction is not far-fetched. We must have one point of responsibility that is clearly defined. If you read Article 88 carefully, that is what is envisaged. Therefore, we should support what the Committee says."
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