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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mirenga",
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        "legal_name": "Ken Obura Mirenga",
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    "content": "that the Members of this Committee come from across the divide for obvious reasons. We must ensure that the national face and the political interests among other things are taken care of. I am also proposing that the people who are members of this Committee - and I am very serious about this - and I am sure that at some point there is an electoral law that is being proposed that will ensure that those who will be members of this House from the next elections will only be of certain academic qualifications. So, you will be sure that those who have so far been enlisted in this Motion, at least, I have scrutinized them. I am sure that their educational background is not lacking. We are looking, at the same time, to ensure that the members of this Committee have the necessary expertise, knowledge and authority that obviously will assist this Committee in its deliberations. I also propose that the modus operandi of this Committee will be one that will be properly agreed by in this House. It will be firmly based on the due process of the law, the natural justice and the general functioning of a public body as we all know. Therefore, I want to insist that this Committee will not engage in any witch-hunting because those are deaths and they are very painful, particularly to the families, relatives, friends and others. So, this Committee will not be engaged in any witch-hunting. It will be very impartial. Its research, deliberations and recommendations must also be based on the due process of the law, the open revelations of the facts and the objective assessment of those facts. We hope that within the ambit of this whole Parliamentary Select Committee, we should be able to consider how in future the Kenya’s investigatory and medical authorities can be able to properly get to do their work in so far as legislation is concerned. I hope that by the end of this work within the 90 days, we will be able to propose a piece of legislation to compel the authorities that are involved to always ensure that the causes of deaths of certain personalities that, of course, will be defined in that legislation, are made public within a period of 72 hours, or whatever time it is that the piece of legislation will define."
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