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    "id": 617082,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/617082/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "December 16, 2015 SENATEDEBATES 20 The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, I oppose this amendment. This is for the reason that all independent constitutional offices have been given authority to recruit their own staff. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), the Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHRC) and Parliament, recruit their own staff. The input of this amendment for colleagues who are just waiting to vote is that we are taking away the power and authority of the Auditor- General in recruiting his own staff and giving it to the Public Service Commission (PSC) under Article 234 of the Constitution. That the PSC will sit and recruit staff for the Auditor-General and impose them on him to work with him. The Auditor-General’s office is one of the independent constitutional offices with power to hire their own staff. This is the beginning of the destruction of the office of the Auditor-General, more particular, at a time when the country is bedeviled with serious questions of accountability of public funds. The Members may have been coerced to come and vote, but they are presiding over the destruction of a constitutional office that when time comes for them to superintend and oversight Government, they will realize the folly---"
}