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    "id": 719566,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
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    "content": "That tells you we are corruption and ethnicity-driven to a destination we cannot be sure of and many Members in the Jubilee Alliance are aware of this. We know them. They are very intelligent and capable Members like the Chairman of the relevant Committee here. There is nothing to amend in this Bill because it is useless. It should just be thrown out because there are only two key objectives. If you oppose them you have no Bill left. What do you have to amend? We have seen the mischief in this Bill to promote corruption. Another Amendment Bill will be tabled about the Attorney-General (AG). He is being too rigid. It is as if there is nostalgia of the past practices when you had your way and appointed whomever you wanted. Somebody who was in standard two could be a director of Kenya Power. You knew very well that he knew nothing about electricity or investment, let alone directorship. The Leader of the Majority Party who moved this Bill is not here but I am happy that the Chairman is here. Just say there is no Bill after the two key things are removed. I wish in the short period we still have here, this practice of proposing amendments which are definitely a clawback on the principles that govern and direct the new Constitution are not increased. It looks like after the Bill against party-hopping was passed and the Members know that this is the last year in Parliament, sycophancy levels tend to rise because Members want to please the bosses so that they can buy nomination tickets and come back for another five years. They know that they want to bring these amendments and if you oppose any of them, you are at a risk of not getting your nomination under the party. I sympathise with the other side where all the parties were collapsed into one under a dictatorship with only two officials. There are no other officials of that party. I sympathise. Please, do not use those practices to come and bulldoze wrong amendments that are clawing back on key principles and values of the Constitution that we had established. When we take them to court for interpretation, you know they will take one year in court so that we will have no chance to bring them back. In the meantime, you would have rigged our elections. Please, excuse us. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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