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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs on the Petition for Removal of two Commissioners of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday April 21, 2015, and in accordance with the provisions of Article 251(3) of the Constitution and Standing Order 230(5), finds that the Petition does disclose sufficient grounds for the removal of Mr. Mumo Matemu and Ms. Irene Keino as Commissioners of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission. The Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs received a Petition for the removal of Mr. Mumo Matemu and Ms. Irene Keino as Chairperson and member of EACC respectively. The Petition by Mr. Geoffrey Oriaro was based on the following grounds: That, Mr. Mumo Matemu and Ms. Irene Keino have committed serious violation of the Constitution; That, there are serious violations of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Act, Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act and the Penal Code; That, there has been gross misconduct in the performance of their functions and that they have been incompetent. Hon. Speaker, the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs went into great length to look at this Petition. We were able to hear the Petitioner, Mr. Geoffrey Oriaro. We were also able to hear the Chairman, Mr. Mumo Matemu, the Vice- Chairperson, Ms. Irene Keino, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr. Halakhe and the Deputy CEO, Mr. Mubea. In the evidence that they provided to the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, we found a lot of guidance in the letter of 9th September, 2014 that they wrote to the President. Although the letter is in the Report and in the bundle we have given as part of the evidence that we have found, I want to look at that letter and take the House through it because in it we find the sort of information which when you get on a commission, you cannot turn your eyes away. In bringing this Motion, let me commit here that the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs is committed to the fight against corruption. It is the issues that we found in the Commission that have led us to the recommendations that we are making to the House. In the letter of 9th September, 2014 written by Ms. Irene Keino and Jane Onsongo to Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta who is the President of the Republic of Kenya on the subject seeking the removal of the Chairperson of EACC due to incompetence and non- performance, the two Commissioners, Ms. Irene Keino and Jane Onsongo, wrote to the President on the issues that they thought were really critical to the conduct of the Chairman. They wrote that they were sure that the Chairperson, Mr. Mumo Matemu could not perform the roles of the Commission in the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2011. When they assumed office, the Commission was The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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