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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I am sympathetic with hon. Mwaura and the people with disabilities but we are in a catch 22 situation. I think the process will take over. If we want to approve the nomination of Dr. Kabue based on the fact that even in the composition of that Commission, we do not have a single person with disability; if we were to allow the nomination, somebody will also challenge it on matters of procedure that he was not among the people who were nominated. If today we decline to approve him, the Commission will still be challenged because there is no person with disability in that particular Commission. The best way for us as Members of this House is to follow the procedure and approve the procedure which has followed due process of law. I stand to support the Motion simply because I feel if we approve this person, we would have contravened the Constitution and the process of selecting persons to commissions. I want to persuade my brother whom I also stand in sympathy with that let us give Dr. Kabue another chance to apply and then due process is followed. I want to say just like what my colleague hon. Otieno said: “Why is it that people usually flaw the laws? “Why is it that it is this House which comes to sanitise matters which people should have done?” We have very great people with integrity who are advising the President on matters of law and procedure and yet they allow these matters to find their way into the Floor of the House. We have people who are also sitting on that panel who should have understood that the procedure itself has to be this way and what the composition of the Commission as it stands at now is and what the law of the Constitution says about the composition of a commission. This is so that they do not put the President and this House in a catch 22 situation. I wish to state like my brother said that even supporting this Motion, a very serious investigation should be done to those people who misadvised the President to do what he did. I stand to support."
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