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    "id": 460361,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwiru",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alex Muthengi Mburi Mwiru",
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    "content": "Indeed, we have a duty and a responsibility as Members of Parliament to check on the excesses of the Executive. If we cannot do it, then the 11th Parliament shall leave no trail of any good thing that they have done. Others have said that maybe the Committee Members or even the Chairman of Lands Committee will be defending someone or some people. I want to state I have no interest, I am defending the law. I want to defend the Constitution because of the responsibility that you gave me as a House and the Committee that I Chair. Indeed, none is my relative, but even though they were my relatives, I would have gone the same way. I am supporting this report because quite a number of statues and laws including our Constitution have been breached. How have they been breached? Someone cannot wake up from his or her house, get to their office and decide to look at the colour, height or sex of another person and transfer or demote them. Indeed, the worst aspect of this is where an officer is transferred from an office or one ministry to another where there is no responsibility or work that they can carry out by virtue of their training. We have a case where an officer was transferred to the Ministry of Petroleum and he was a surveyor. We have these records, hon. Members and unfortunately that particular officer was rejected because that ministry said they had no vacancy for him. Thereafter, the officer, a Mr. Owino, was transferred to the Ministry of Fisheries, where I do not believe you need to survey fish. What I am saying in this is that Government is losing taxpayers’ money, by paying officers who are not working. One thing I should point out is that despite the officers being qualified---"
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