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    "id": 568466,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aluoch",
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        "legal_name": "John Olago Aluoch",
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    "content": "the extent that there were attempts by the commissioners to override the secretariat and vice- versa. These amendments will heal that problem that has been in the Commission before, so that commissioners will provide guidance and not meddle in implementation. The part-time commissioners we are going to have need not be investigators as long as they are persons who have knowledge in economics and law. Guidance to the Commission is very important because lack of guidance would certainly derail the Commission. The commissioners we are going to have, if this Bill is passed, should be persons who will not be going to the Commission as job seekers, but persons who are employed usefully elsewhere and who are willing to provide services to the Commission without sitting at the Commission headquarters every day. The commissioners we have had, right from Justice Ringera, Prof. Lumumba and Mr. Matemu, are persons who, at the time of their appointments as commissioners, were looking for jobs. When that happens, then you have a person who has the time and opportunity not just to guide the Commission, but also to participate in the implementation of policies in a way that contradicts the roles of the commissioners and those of the secretariat. To that extent, therefore, this Bill is going to serve its purpose. It will give the secretariat the power that they need to implement the objectives of the Commission under the Act. I support the amendments."
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