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    "id": 490060,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gethenji",
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        "legal_name": "James Ndungu Gethenji",
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    "content": "THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Defense and Foreign Relations on the vetting of the nominee for the position of the Director-General of the National Intelligence Service, laid on the Table of the House today, Wednesday, September 10th 2014, and pursuant to the provisions of Section 7(3) of the National Intelligence Service Act, No. 28 of 2012, approves the appointment of Major-General Phillip Wachira Kameru as the Director- General of the Service. It is with great pride and honour that I move this ground breaking Motion on the Floor of this House today. This is a historic Motion. It is the first time in Kenya’s history that Parliament has been called upon to undertake the task of approving nominees under the new Constitution by His Excellency the President. The nominee for the Director-General of National Intelligence Service, according to the new Constitution, was presented to us for vetting through a communication from your Chair. Before we start, I wish to first thank His Excellency the President for the nomination. I also thank the outgoing and retiring Director-General of the National Intelligence Service, Major-General Gichangi, for his good service to the country. I also wish to thank my Vice-Chair, hon. Bare Shill, and all the members of the Committee for the exemplary service and the hard work they put in day after day, night after night when vetting the nominee and putting together the Report that you see before you this afternoon. All the Members of the committee exhibited exemplary service and sober approach and carried out the vetting with a great deal of decorum, which befits Members of this august House. History has been made today and I can think of no finer way of making that history. In keeping with the our mandate, and according to the Constitution and our Standing Orders--- Section 7 of the National Intelligence Service Act, states one, that there shall be a Director-General of the Service, who shall, with the Approval of the National Assembly, be appointed by the President. Two, the President shall nominate a person for the appointment as the Director-General and submit the name of the nominee to the National Assembly. On the 21st August 2014, in your communication you informed the House that His Excellency the President, by way of a letter dated 20th of August, 2014, had nominated Major-General Phillip Wachira Kameru for the position of Director-General of the National Intelligence Service for approval by the House Pursuant to Section 7(1) and (2) of the National Intelligence Service Act, 2012."
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