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    "id": 717349,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "hearings for the good bishop, noted that Kenya is at a crossroads. The fact that we have not had an EACC chief who withstands suspicion and who would appear to have some serious trust from Kenyans, we noted that this is a chance that we could use to put in the good bishop to see whether he will change the landscape and the way Kenyans think about the people they put in place to fight corruption. Of course, there are several issues. If the good bishop becomes the Chair of EACC, it is historic because it will be the first time that a clergy will have taken up that position. Necessarily, certain questions then must arise. Some of those questions are theological questions: How he is going to balance his stay in that office? How he is going to shed the garb of priesthood and wear the clothing of a fighter? Corruption fight is not a small matter. The good bishop has to know how to balance his appointment with his anointment. I know for a fact, confessions are not restricted to people of the Catholic denomination. They go beyond that. Christians normally make confessions to their priests and clergy. The good bishop is not an exception. I am sure today there are people who go to him to make confessions. It would be interesting to see how he will deal with those confessions. If a practitioner of corruption goes to the bishop and confesses in confidence to have done a corrupt deed, what does the bishop do? Will the bishop take the confession, turn it over to the DPP for further investigations or will the bishop retain the information as an anointed person and as a person who has sworn not to disclose matters of confession? In doing that, will he have subverted the course of justice or will he have impeded the investigations as a chair of a constitutional commission? So, those are some of the issues we raised because it will be interesting if the Archbishop can give penance to corrupt persons, tell them to go and say this and that and then their sins are forgiven. However, he assured us that he has a civic duty to punish. What he ties in this world is tied in Heaven. As a civic person, he agreed he would prudently discharge his duties. That aside, Kenyans must start thinking very seriously about how to be patriotic and not to be judgemental. This is because, an Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) chief is not an angel and you will never find one to run that Commission. As a human being, even if integrity issues must be looked at, we must realise that this is an office – an independent commission. Once we appoint commissioners, we must allow them to do their duties independently and without any political interference. We are optimistic that the good Archbishop will carry out his mission without compromising his anointment. He must always be faithful to his appointment. I support."
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