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    "id": 72646,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/72646/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Cheptumo",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 50,
        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
        "slug": "william-kipkiror"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. The Government and, indeed, my Ministry is committed to ensuring that all provisions of the new Constitution are fully implemented. My Ministry appreciates the significance of the provisions of Chapter Six of the Constitution. The provisions of this chapter aim at restoring integrity and leadership in public offices. Under this chapter, Parliament is to enact legislation to establish an Independent Ethics Anti-Corruption Commission under Article 79 within one year. In addition, Parliament is also to enact legislation on leadership under Article 80 within two years. To facilitate the enactment of the Legislation and State Chapters, the Government in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, Parliament will enact legislation on Independent Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, as I said earlier under Article 79 within one year and legislation on leadership within two years. To facilitate the enactment of legislation anticipated under this chapter, the Government and, indeed, my Ministry has organized strategic inter-agency co-ordination workshops to develop and draft a leadership and integrity law. Secondly, to facilitate workshops to review the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, Public Officers Act and other legislations, a review of these laws and the enactment of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission will pave way for the restructuring of the current Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) into a new"
}