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    "id": 56725,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "There are a number of legislations and this week, I stood on the Floor of this House and demanded to get the progress report from the Government on the various Bills that are supposed to be presented to this House so that we can debate them, pass them and get this country moving in a new direction that we want it to go. I am confident because I have been involved in various discussions on the status and progress of various Bills and I think we need to reassure Kenyans that the various Bills or pieces of legislation that need to be in place will be in place at the right time. I have participated in consultative workshops where various Bills have been discussed including the Electoral Bill. Devolution is in the process because we have a task force handling it. We are also aware that even the Political Parties (Amendment) Bill is nearing completion and I participated in drafting it. I am encouraged that if we move together, as a country, then we will be able to achieve our objective. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, many of my colleagues have spoken about public awareness. As we talk about public awareness, it is important that we ask whether the various Government departments are aware that we have a new Constitution in place. I do not want to call it a new Constitution anymore, because the Constitution Implementation Commission (CIC) wants us to discourage Kenyans from calling this Constitution new. This is because it is the only one we have. We must learn and live the spirit of this Constitution. If, for example, we are going to have the recruitment of police officers and Administration Police (APs), are we going to see the old way of recruitment, or we are going to see a change? The CIC has already drafted procedures to be followed and adopted. Are they going to be adopted? I would like to see a situation where we do not hear Kenyans crying that they were made to bribe their way into getting access to regular police and the AP. I would not want to hear a case where two weeks after the recruitment exercise is completed, some people are bringing people from the villages to be placed as APs and regular police. We would like to see fairness in this country. We would like to see equity. We would like to see a system where a Kenyan can walk to a recruitment process without influencing it, and getting recruited competitively. That is what we need to look at."
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