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    "id": 531999,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A. B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "“(1) As soon as practicable after the end of each financial year, each commission, and each holder of an independent office, shall submit a report to the President and to Parliament”. This means that the Auditor-General and the Controller of Budget, within Chapter 15 of the Constitution, shall submit a report to the President and to Parliament. At the end of every financial year, the President must receive a report from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, the Inspector General of Police, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Commission on Revenue Allocation and any Commission under Chapter 15. In Sub-Article (2), it says that:- “At any time, the President, the National Assembly or the Senate may require a commission or holder of an independent office to submit a report on a particular issue”. This requires the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission or holder of any independent office to submit a report on a particular issue. So, the President can write to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission requesting a status report. With regard to (3) by which, my good friend, hon. Junet, rests his case, I am sure his attorney might not have been a good one; it says that:- “Every report required from a commission or holder of an independent office under this Article shall be published and publicized”. By tabling those reports this afternoon, I publicised and published them. When we table a report here, it becomes a public document. It is publicised. For the avoidance of doubt, the Senate had a sitting this morning. My colleague, the Leader of the Majority in the Senate, tabled it. Hon. Speaker, the most publicised documents from 9.30 a.m. to this minute in our country is none other than the documents tabled and given to you by the President. As we sit here, the whole nation is seized of and is discussing this Report. Let me come to the controversial aspect. Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta has touched the most high voltage nerves, which were never touched even by his father. Nobody has a problem with the report on security and the report on our international obligations. The one that is bothering everybody is the annexure from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission. What made the President bring it? Was he within the law? Article 254 says that the President is supposed to receive at the end of every financial year a report from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission. It says he can ask for it. Article 132, again, talks about what the President is supposed to do. He is supposed to report, in an address to the nation, on all the measures taken and progress achieved in the realisation of national values referred to in Article 10 of the Constitution. So, the President cannot come here and talk about Jubilee. He must come to this House and talk about his achievements and realisation of national values based on Article 10 of the Constitution."
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