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    "id": 686322,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gichigi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kamunye Gichigi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am in a quandary. I have consulted and been told that this Bill must be passed as a constitutional requirement within the next two days. Members need to listen to this. The whole of Clause 9(3A) is completely misplaced. The truth of the matter is that those are the sort of provisions that are brought to remove somebody who has already been appointed. Once you are in office, if you get convicted for an offence and you are removed. That is for Clause 9 (3A) (a). I completely disagree with Clause 9 (3A) (a) and (b). Being a member of a governing body of a political party is not a job. You only go there once in a while. It is not a job. Why do we say that Kenyans who serve in those offices should not serve in those public bodies? That is completely wrong. In Clause 9 (3A) (a) and (c), I do not want to belabour what Hon. Kaluma has said. If somebody was convicted during the Nyayo era in error because of a political issue, you propose that the person should not be appointed to the board. This is something that happened in the past. This clause deals with the ethics and governance provisions in the Constitution. If you violate them, you get disqualified and you are removed from office. You should not be removed due to something historical that happened. This is too general for our own good. I have no issue with Clause 9 (3A) (d). It says in part that a person shall not be appointed to the board if they contravened the provisions of the Constitution or any other written law. When you say “or any other written law”, what do you mean by that? A traffic offence is a written law. If you violate that, it means that you cannot be qualified to be on that board. I am told that if we do not pass this law - and it is a very bad provision - we would have violated the timelines in the Constitution. I will ask the Committee to find out if there is a way of cleansing this particular provision. If not, we are left with no option but to pass a bad law and subsequently probably amend it. It is important that the Committee takes responsibility for this mess."
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