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    "id": 460368,
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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": "Thank you hon. Speaker, Sir. I do not want to dwell on that because I am also an expert in Lands Management, but all I know is that you cannot survey fish, you can only count them and those kinds of things. It is important to note that these particular decisions the Cabinet Secretary was making, she did not involve the authorized officer, who is the Principal Secretary in the Ministry. Indeed, by law she is appointed by the Public Service Commission. Therefore, for any particular transfer, posting even creation of a post or position, the authorized officer is supposed to request for the approval from the Public Service Commission and not the Cabinet Secretary. It is important to note that and this is attested even verbatim by the Chair, Public Service Commission. Therefore, there was wrong doing in that particular thing. It should be noted that there is no witch-hunting here because tomorrow or the day after it will be someone else. Indeed, we must check the Executive or else they will run amok and they are not going to manage this country. When the Cabinet Secretary was asked whether what she did was in consultation with the National Land Commission, which is actually an institution created by the Constitution of this country, in Article No.67 she said “yes,” but before the Committee the National Land Commission said “no”. Therefore, the only thing I can recommend as we move in future is that we also need to harmonize the operations of the main Ministry and the National Land Commission so that they can move in the same direction. Two wrongs cannot make a right. For now, it is wrong and we know an issue on the National Land Commission is already before a joint Committee which was brought forward by hon. Munyao. As the Leader of the Majority Party told this House earlier on, it is not an issue of the clan or the region where you come from but it is an issue of responsibility or trying to be able to safeguard the interest of this country from whichever position you hold, however small or big it is."
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