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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support and make my contribution. In supporting, I want to raise some issues with the approach taken by the Committee. I believe in questioning the viability, or even the sensibility of this Commission. We have had this Commission but it was one of those things we were doing to attempt to deal with issues of corruption. It was a stop-gap measure before we got our new Constitution. I hear your sentiments and I am in agreement that, maybe, it is just the right time not to renew the term of this Commission. It may be godsend for all of us to have taken home those commissioners, and maybe it should just end there for the time being, so that our institutions charged with the role of maintaining law and order can begin to take root under the new Constitution. I agree that commissioners need to be part-time, and not only the ones in the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). I do not know the relevance of all commissioners. These commissions are milking the public coffers. We need money for our roads and hospitals. We need no commissioner on a full-time basis. The issue of having commissioners on full-time basis was misinformed. The only thing I want the Committee to address when it will be replying is this: When you say they are part-time, what powers will they have? The Constitution says that--- These people employ their own people. So, who will be the boss? What is occasioning this law is the contradictions of powers. I believe that the secretariat ought to have powers. That power so far is vested only in the Commission, according to what we are seeing here. It would be nice that the buck stops with the real fighters of corruption, because they have the facts. If that is addressed, then I will be supporting this Bill. I also do not see a sense at all as to why you need five of them. We have been saying that commissions are taking too much of our money. It would be wrong for this Parliament to sit here and add more expenditure to taxpayers just because you want a quorum. The reason we said in the Constitution that the number of commissioners should be a minimum of three and a maximum of nine was not just by mistake. We were saying that where it is not necessary - especially in this one - it should be three or a number we can afford, but not nine. This figure of nine was brought about by the nature of our politics. Everybody said that because we are eight provinces, we do regional balancing and the Chairperson is now for the President to appoint. All that was the thinking of the previous Parliament. This one needs to be up with it. If you go to many countries, the person called the commissioner is usually a single person. It is true that person needs to be part-time. It must be somebody who has something to lose. Today, if I had a chance to say who the Commissioner of EACC is, I would say Speaker Justin B. Muturi alone. Do you know why, Mr. Speaker? It is because you have something to lose. If you go there and 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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