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    "id": 718492,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/718492/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 130,
        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
        "slug": "dalmas-otieno"
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    "content": "I have observed this Government from 2013 up to now, and there are very clear efforts to renege on key constitutional provisions through amendments hammered through the House using the tyranny of numbers. You will realise that Independent Constitutional Commissions have now been directed. Some powers of even the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) have been withdrawn. The same case applies to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). The Public Service Commission (PSC) has now been told to send so many names for chairpersons and other members. This is because the President complained that he has no power. Even if we are corruption and ethnicity-driven to an extent that we are becoming a corrupt and gambling nation, the President feels he is powerless. We knew all these because the previous President had those powers but these mischiefs were there. This is no Bill. There is no Bill here. The key object is to remove Parliament from supervising appointees to the Commission and the privatisation process. Open bigger windows for corruption so that if I decide which tribe will belong to which company among the parastatals--- If one dies, I will replace with the same tribe. If it is Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) or Kenya Power (KP), who replaces? This is so, so that you give me more room to practise ethnicity and advance the corrupt practices that are going on. So, there is a serious mischief in this Bill. In fact, there is no Bill here. There are only two clauses and not the one that talks about Cabinet Secretary instead of Minister. That is no amendment because we did it. It is automatic and you do not have to put it in any law here. It is not even quorum. If anything quorum was nine but when you say two-thirds, you are reducing the quorum to six so that you open more room for me to practise tribalism and corruption. The Chairman has nothing to amend---"
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