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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Before I support, I just want my colleagues here to join me in mourning my brother who was mysteriously found dead in his house in Kitisuru yesterday morning. My brother by the name of Isaac Chanzu was found dead in the house. So I am mourning. I have asked Members to come and join me in the evening at 5.00pm to help me organize for his burial because I would like to have him buried on Sunday. The spirit of the mediation team that the two Speakers brought up is the spirit of the Constitution. This is so that, when there are issues which are not agreed upon by either side of the House, that is the Senate and the National Assembly Members are able to sit down, deliberate and have some mutual understanding. Just like he said, that is in Article 6 of the Constitution. So, I congratulate the mediation team that came up with this mediated version of the Bill. What this is saying is that we must have professionalism in whatever we are doing. This is because, the stage we have reached in terms of development, we cannot continue doing things on a trial and error basis. This is the reason why the idea of talking about the Director of Veterinary Services is very important. Kenya is an agricultural country. Agriculture includes both crops and animal husbandry. So, it is very important that we have the Director as a professional who can advise on what is required in the Fertilizer and Animal Foodstuffs Bill. We are trying to get rid of aspects of political expedience where we have appointed people just because of political support without taking into account the end results. So, it is important that gradually, we get aspects of political expedience out of the way. In any case, Kenya has trained many professionals in every field since Independence. In fact, there was a time when we had veterinary doctors not getting employed. This was not because we did not have job opportunities for them; rather it was because we were disorganized as a Government. We did not know what these fellows were supposed to do. The main reason was that the people who were heading these units did not know what these professionals were supposed to be doing. We have had aspects of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. So, it is an aspect that we should encourage. On the legal aspects, the Office of the Attorney-General should traverse across all the institutions and functions of Government in order to give legal advice. So, putting them there will set precedent where you have to include them in other institutions. Considering the fact that we have a number of institutions such as parastatals and all sorts of Government institutions, it will mean that the Attorney-General’s Office will have to be spread out to fit in every institution that you create. It is good that they are relied on when it comes to interpretation of issues that they have to interpret. Just like in this House, the only aspect that we find we need interpretation from either the AG’s Office or the Judiciary is what we take there. The other things which we are able to deal with using our own knowledge, we handle ourselves. This is also going to remove the aspect of middlemen and brokers. So, this is a commendable job. I support."
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