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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kamau",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jamleck Irungu Kamau",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I do not intend to guide the Committee on how they are supposed to write their reports but as a Member of this House and also as a Chair also of a Committee and I also have sat in committees before, I know how reports are written. Therefore, I do not really want to dwell on that because I want to dwell on the issues that I have before me. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I personally have said that I do not want to be taken wrongly but if there is any nominee whose name appeared in this House or in the Committee and his or her name was not forwarded to the President for approval, I cannot support such a person but for those nominees who went through the entire process, they are clean. They have no problem. Why should they actually be victimised simply because some other persons found their way in? I thought the best thing that we can do as a House is to make sure that we put ourselves in the shoes of those people and actually if they have no problem make the necessary recommendations to rectify the matter. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I have seen that there were three persons whose names were submitted to the President for approval as Chair and yet the Committee talks about seven people and I understand. I have read the report and I know but what the Committee did not tell us is that there was a court order that said that alongside those three members that the panel was to submit to the President, there four other members who were The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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