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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 22,
        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will recall that when His Excellency the President addressed a Special Sitting of this House on the 22nd March, he listed a number a number of Bills which he requested this House to pass within the next three months. One of them was the Commission on Administrative Justice Bill. Just the following day, that is on 23rd March, the Public Complaints Standing Committee (PCSC) in the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs issued advertisements in the media for positions of executive director, assistant executive director, senior legal officer, senior executive secretary and other senior staff in circumstances which clearly point out that this Public Complaints Standing Committee is in the process of placing advertisements in defiance of the law and in order to defeat the purpose of the forthcoming commission that we are supposed to debate within the next three months. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in this Statement, I want the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs to explain why the advertisements for the several positions appeared to be tailor-made to suit currently serving staff of the PCSC with a view to promoting them before the PCSC transits into a constitutional commission and whether the intention of the advertisement is to deny the new Commission on Administrative Justice the option to recruit its staff in a fair and transparent manner. This is important in terms of the Constitution implementation and we should not be having Standing Committees placing advertisements and utilizing public funds in a period within which we are supposed to set up a new commission, defeating the very purpose of the commission and also wasting public funds. Therefore, I request him to issue this Statement as soon as possible."
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