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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I agree with Dr. Wekesa, but he should have stopped at the “she”. I rise in support of the Motion. I want to hope that the two Principals - I am glad one is here - will use the time to reflect on the things they must do pursuant to the new Constitution. Cabinet is still riddled with people who cannot pass the test under Chapter 6. Please, take time to look at it. National and public appointments must be competitive unless the Constitution itself says otherwise. I invite the two Principals to read carefully, Articles 10 and 232. They will be guided accordingly that while making public appointments, even where the statute has not been amended, the Constitution is supreme. They must subject public appointments to competitive bidding to give other Kenyans a chance to participate. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the signatures being collected by the Provincial Administration in Central Province, it is a great shame that people can be duped to collect signatures for deferral on the ICC cases and they are not asking for signatures on views about IDPs. That is totally one-sided. I urge the Government to rise up and resettle the remaining IDPs. This is our national shame. It ought to be done now and not tomorrow. On the issue of setting up a local tribunal, if the Government was really serious, there would be nothing wrong with that. It is about an independent tribunal. But because of the push and pull that is still evident in our political scene, it would have to be a process that is above board. But when the Government chooses to be one-sided and campaign only for the Ocampo Six, then we doubt that we have capacity to hold fair trials in Kenya. So, the Government is undermining their stated objective of a local tribunal by their behaviour. I also urge the two Principals to look at the quick things that can be done. I also urge the Commission on Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) and Parliament to do the same. We need to reform the Public Service Commission. We need a new National Police Commission. We need an electoral body. There are certain reforms that cannot wait. How will we hold the next general election without new electoral laws and a new system of voting, noting that we will be electing eight people at the same time? Let us accelerate the reforms. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on security, the other day five people were killed in Mwea. I think the security apparatus in the country need to pull up their socks. The other day, in Mandera, we had foreign troops on our Kenyan soil. They were there for several days. Exactly what is happening? A nation that cannot guard its borders has no right to claim sovereignty. The message to the two Principals is: put your act together on issues of national security. Let us all uphold the principles and values contained in the new Constitution. The era of disrupting other people’s rallies is gone. We saw our campaigns being disrupted in Kerugoya Central and no action was taken. On Saturday as I was opening the party office, parking boys were paid by a Member of this House to go and disrupt it. Let me not use words that should not be used here, but you look like a confused person when you go to disrupt others because you cannot stop political activity. We need to know that use of Government resources in campaigns amounts to rigging. Any victory borne of rigging is not victory. It is a sham and it is a shame on democracy. I want to call for the necessary reforms that we should do, pursuant to the Constitution to put Kenya among the democratic countries, in both practice and the letter of the law. Lastly, it is incumbent upon the two Principals that when your Ministers mis- conduct themselves and bring shame to the Government, they should be reprimanded and in severe cases, shown the door. How else will we have discipline in this country? If you do not reprimand or show them the door, we take it that you are aiding and abating the illegal acts. Check on corruption in the Government. It is again a comfortable bed-fellow with the Government. We need to see integrity, transparency and accountability. This is a well deserved break. We will come back recharged to do the necessary for the nation. I beg to support."
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