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    "id": 610150,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. On the outset, I want to say that this Report is before the House, pursuant to Standing Order No.225 (2) (b) and Standing Order No. 227 and Article 251(a) (b) and (d). Regardless of your gender, once you hold a constitutional office, you will be taken through Article 251. So, I want to ask my good friends, the lady Members of Parliament; that if you are a lady, there is no exemption in the Constitution as far as Article 251 is concerned. If you abuse the Constitution, a Report will be passed in this House, a tribunal will be formed and you will be sent home. The Committee did a good job and we should go ahead. The other important thing is that we must appropriately recommend to independent institutions, when we feel that a petition was based on malice or has ethnic undertones or tribal leanings, and where corruption was used to bring a petition to Parliament--- If a Committee feels that there are no grounds for a petition before it, we should not be stopping at that but rather, we should recommend to the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commissions, and to the Director of Public Prosecutions, for them to pursue the individuals and deal with them appropriately. The same people went ahead and brought a petition for the disbandment of Independent Electoral and Boundary Commission (IEBC). Some of them refused to appear before the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. The constitutional provision for petitioning Parliament is being misused. This is provided for under Article 251 of the Constitution as well as in our Standing Orders, but this provision should not be misused. Petitions should not be turned into a tool for witch-hunting, where people seek to settle political, ethnic and regional scores. Hon. Speaker, I had the privilege of serving in the last Parliament and support a Committee that appointed the subject of this petition. I know the calibre of the person we are discussing. Therefore, I urge my colleagues to support this Report. On the allegations raised, probably, the threshold was not presented but this is a wake-up call for Ms. Lichuma. I want to confirm that my office and the Office of the Speaker of the National Assembly have the face of Kenya. If Ms. Lichuma has, in her office, people from her village and her county, then this House is telling her that she has a chance to correct the situation. She might not survive next time. Kenya is one and she must employ all Kenyans. There is an allegation by a procurement officer, Mr. Christopher Keter; that he had been sent away by the Chairperson. The allegation was not proven. The gentleman served in the Commission on secondment for three years and a further six months. Civil servants and other people who serve in the constitutional Commissions do so as Kenyans. They do not serve in Commissions as Onyango or Keter or Mohamed or Musyoka. If one does not follow the rules and regulations put in place by any commission, one should not use any one of us in this House on ethnic grounds. The Committee’s recommendation is very important. The Chairperson of the Committee on Implementation, hon. Soipan, is here. The Criminal Investigation Department should investigate the source of the two payslips for the month of March, 2014 belonging to one Nzioka Nzomo. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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