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    "id": 517408,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njagagua",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Muriuki Njagagua",
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    "content": "Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. It is unfortunate that the legal team or the presidential advisors advised him to submit a name that was not shortlisted for approval by Parliament. This is actually looking down upon us because we do not expect that people who have sworn to defend the Constitution will come around and start to trample upon that Constitution. It is also unfortunate that Dr. Kabue is very well qualified to hold this position, but he was never shortlisted. So, in my opinion, either the Presidency or the people who were appointing wished to use Parliament to approve a name that was never shortlisted through the back door. That is because the daktari was never shortlisted. Hon. Speaker, we must appreciate that public funds, time and resources were used during the process of shortlisting. This has gone down the drain because the eight persons whose names were submitted to the President were never considered. However, I believe other extraneous issues and matters were used to forward this name to Parliament. So, as I contribute to this Motion, I believe that somebody somewhere should be surcharged for the misuse of those public funds or resources that were utilized. I stand here to support the Motion by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. The hon. Member who was seconding this Motion was heard saying that it is only the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs that knows what is legal. I want to imagine, and I will seek your guidance, that all Committees of this Parliament are equal and they all use the law in their deliberations. So, it is not only the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs that knows what is legal and others do not know. You guided us on the matter that if this Motion does not pass, the man’s name neither stands, and is neither dropped nor nominated. Where does he lie? Does he lie say in purgatory? Does that name just remain? I would want to imagine that if we reject this Motion, then the name also goes. Like Lord Denning said, “fraud vitiates everything.” It was a fraudulent move to send this name to Parliament when it was never submitted to the President. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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