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    "id": 568458,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "Secondly, when you consider the EACC commissioners, the role of EACC is purely policy and not executive. Yet, they have been made executive. There is no policy that they perform from Monday through to Friday. So, just like any other ordinary board of a serious organisation, like the one I served, the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), you can imagine if it had full-time board members. It would create two centres of power in which it will be very difficult to dispatch business. The only thing the board members will be doing is to micro-manage the secretariat, which is also executive. In this case, you can imagine, the secretariat is mandated with the responsibility of carrying out investigations. In the presence of commissioners who are supposed to enact policy from time to time, they will always want to know the position of investigations. That is the reason there is a lot of interference in the Commission. The other reason we are recommending that commissioners serve on a part-time basis is that, if you insist that you want someone to serve on a full-time basis, take for instance, senior lawyers of the calibre of a Judge of the High Court or Court of Appeal, you will be asking that senior lawyer to close his or her law firm for six years. The Commissioners of Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) have a six-year non-renewable term. If you close your law firm for six years, when you come back, all your clients will have disappeared. As a State officer, you are not expected to continue having the law firm while, at the same time, serving on a full-time basis. So, it is unwise to have commissioners on a full-time basis. 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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