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    "id": 676721,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/676721/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anami",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2773,
        "legal_name": "Lisamula Silverse Anami",
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    "content": "I would like to support this Bill so that we can provide procedures, regulations and controls on appointments of those personalities. The people involved in the vetting especially at the county assemblies, we have witnessed compromises that have been entered through the governor providing external or international travels to MCAs. We need people of credibility to take up the role of vetting people who provide services at county governments. It is important for us to keep revisiting this issue of the threshold on who qualifies to be elected as a member of the county assembly. We need people with credibility. This should happen even during the process of nomination. It should be provided for in the Elections Act and in the process for electioneering so that we have credible people. It is embarrassing that people with lesser morals and lesser intellectual capacities are put in the responsibility of vetting people who evidently have higher morals and who evidently have higher intellectual capacities. It defeats the purpose. We cannot have a Standard Eight or a Form Two graduate vetting a university graduate. It defeats the purpose of the exercise. We must be systematic in dealing with these processes of appointment so that we do not defeat the same purpose for which we are setting these frameworks. When we come to Committee of the whole House, we need to look into this matter so that we can achieve the highest benefits from this Bill."
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