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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have been here from 9.00 a.m. I only went out for a short break in the afternoon. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to support this Address, which is like an outline the President was giving to guide us as we conduct our business, both here in Parliament and outside. I find the Address was okay. The only thing I find, as in all good written Addresses--- Kenyans have been able to write very good speeches. The only thing is lack of commitment to implementation. The other things that I really expected to be highlighted in it are two issues. These are the issue of corruption and tribalism. The things we see being talked about as side shows and so on--- If you look at them very keenly, they appear to have roots in ethnicity. This is a national assembly. We come from various backgrounds and get here as leaders in the national assembly. We talk here very well, because we are guided by the Standing Orders but when we get out, we forget it. I think that is where we get into this awkward situation. That is why we are not able to even implement whatever is said here. It looks very easy but you find that when you get to this the commissions that were outlined on Page 11, the Independent Commissions Bill, Commission on Revenue Allocation, the Salaries and Remuneration Commission, the Kenya National Human Rights and Equality Commission and so on. I think the most critical one is number ten, which I think should be coming shortly. That is the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Bill. We saw what happened when we had the Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission (IIBRC). Everything we looked at, we did so because of where we come from. That is why we were not able to get its recommendations implemented. I hope when it comes to the people to be appointed members, we will be looking at the people who would be appointed to some of these Commissions as Kenyans and not at where they come from. Otherwise, that is likely to derail things like the situation we are having at hand now; that is the issue of the Chief Justice, Attorney-General, the Director of Public Prosecutions and Director of Budget. We have spent so much time and the matter has not been solved. The clock is ticking very fast. We talk about less than two years to elections and we passed in this Constitution in, I think, August last year. If you count from August up to now, that is already more than seven months, and we have not been able to do anything towards getting these commissions in place. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think what is lacking amongst us is commitment. When we are talking of this business of security in the Bill here, there are security agencies here like the National Security Council Bill, the Police Service Commission Bill, the National Police Service, the Police Oversight Authority and private security. I think these are very important and very urgent Bills. We must pass them in this Parliament, because if you look at the security of the country and the various times the Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security has been answering Questions here, he has been able to give answers to all of them but he has not been able to provide what he mentions in his answers. He has not been able to provide vehicles for surveillance and increase the number of police officers. I think it is urgent that Members of Parliament put aside our own personal ethnic and individualistic views in order for us to be able to pass these important Bills."
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