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    "id": 595904,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kisoi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Michael Manthi Kisoi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. When you look at this Report, there is no absolute evidence to indicate that Major (Rtd.) Muiu is physically incapacitated. It is just a process from the Head of Civil Service requesting the Director of Medical Services to constitute a board that would in turn give a report on the status of his incapacitation. With the absence of this, I think the Committee has put the cart before the horse. The process would have been given time so that the Director of Medical Services could constitute the board which would come up with a report. I want to believe that this is normally done by a competent physician as the requirement of the law so that now we can determine whether to subject Major (Rtd.) Muiu to a tribunal. So, in the absence of that, I feel constrained to support the intentions of this Committee but I want to appeal to Kenyans to realise that issues of sickness can come any time and there is no dispute at this moment that Major (Rtd.) Muiu is on official sick leave. This raises the question: What would happen if all those people who have sick leaves have to be laid off simply because they are not able to perform? That is why sometimes I have said that we are obliged to follow the law but sometimes this is a precedent. It is now Major (Rtd.) Muiu but it can affect any other person or any other Kenyan. My appeal is that the Chairperson of the Committee should, with all humility, revisit the recommendations of this Report and give a fair opportunity to Major (Rtd.) Muiu to give his side of the story through physically competent medical personnel. He should also appear before a medical board. In any case, they would really like to subject him to that process. The guy is entitled to full medical benefits, which even this Committee did not find it worth recommending. I find it a bit far-fetched in as much as I want to agree that there is a tribunal process. I want to go on record as saying that Major (Rtd.) Muiu was not given an opportunity to be heard by this Committee."
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