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    "id": 721333,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Omulele",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2145,
        "legal_name": "Christopher Omulele",
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    "content": "He has been the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of this law firm. He practises good law. There was an issue with a case in which he represented the Nairobi City County. There were allegations that he did not do a good job. There was a judgment from the High Court of Kenya which said that the Nairobi City County did not give Mr. Chebukati and his firm proper instructions so that he could represent them properly. Hon. Speaker and I are lawyers. We know that the only way to represent a client is from instructions which have been given and put in your hands. You have been seized with the case so that you can present those facts and your client‟s case in the best of your ability. If a client does not put these instructions in an advocate‟s hand, definitely the advocate cannot be expected to be a miracle worker. Advocates are not messiahs. They are also not seers. Therefore, they cannot see beyond what the client has instructed. Mr. Chebukati and his law firm could only do what the client asked them to do. Hon. Speaker, you and I know that if you do anything as an advocate that your client has not instructed you to do, then you will be doing what is called in law, overstepping and overreaching and there will be complaints raised against you for doing what the client has not instructed you to do. The allegation that Mr. Chebukati and his law firm did not do for the City Council what they should have done cannot be raised and cannot lie. I have also looked at the curriculum vitae of the other proposed commissioners for this Commission and I do not see a problem. These are qualified people. These are Kenyans. Kenyans and my brothers in this August House, I beseech you, when we are looking at these things, let us look at them remembering that all of us have interests. All of us come to this House to represent different interests. As you fight for your own interests, we must remember that other parties and people in this House also have interests. Their interests are not any lesser than yours. Your interests are not superior to those of that person. Looking at the requirements of the law for the qualifications of commissioners in this country, I see that the commissioners that have been proposed are all qualified. I beseech the House and ask my brothers and sisters in this House that we approve these people so that they can embark on the job that is before them. There is a great job before them. This country needs these people yesterday. Let us approve these people today so that they can do this work for Kenyans."
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