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    "id": 48972,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/48972/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. Maina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 75,
        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "The other issue is about the secretariat. It should be there to keep accurate information and guide the Commission that we will select. Under no circumstances should they be accorded the powers of the Commission. The Chairman of the Commission and the Members remain the people that this House, which represents the people of Kenya, has given the mandate. The rest of them, and I do not want to use the word “secretaries” at whatever senior level, cannot take political responsibility. The only people who can take political responsibility are the Commissioners that we will appoint to the Commission. Therefore, they must have the overall authority. The Chief Executive Officer of this Commission and the whole secretariat should be answerable to the Commission. Under no circumstances should they have some independence, because political responsibility must be different from the Executive responsibility. Let the secretariat take responsibility for the Executive authority and the Commission takes political responsibility. The Commission should be the body that this House should be demanding an answer from tomorrow, but not anybody else who will be employed."
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