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    "content": "capacity for non-partisanship. He possesses impressive credentials as a champion for reform, democracy, the rule of law and civil liberties. Three, with regard to Dr. Ibrahim Ali, the Committee noted that Dr. Ali holds a doctorate degree in Chemistry from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. He has vast experience in the field of environmental research, where he is a pioneer and has similarly impressive credentials in community service and philanthropic work. The Committee found this nominee qualified on the required grounds of academic and professional competence, moral probity and political non-partisanship. with regard to Dr. Elizabeth Muli, the nominee holds a PhD in law from Stanford University Law School, and currently teaches law at the University of Nairobi where she also chairs the Department of Commercial Law. Between 1995 and 1998, Dr. Muli served as a state counsel in the State Law Office, Department of Treaties and Agreements. The Committee found Dr. Muli duly qualified on the basic evaluation grounds of academic qualification, professional competence, moral probity and apparent political non-partisanship. Dr. Florence Omosa holds a PhD in decision science – some of us were discovering that there is a discipline called decision science today – from the London School of Economics and is a distinguished consultant and advisor in the field of decision making and institution development. She currently works as a consultant advisor for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and has previously served IGAD and the USAID among others as a consultant. Dr. Omosa projects a strong strict personality and appears to be a stickler for deadlines and discipline. The Committee found her qualified on the basic evaluation grounds of academic qualification, professional competence and moral probity and had no apparent political affiliations. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Ms. Catherine Muma is a holder of LLM Degree from the University of London and is a distinguished expert on human rights, governance and gender. She has previously served as a State Counsel between 1995 and 2003, Commissioner on the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) between 2003 and 2006 and a Commissioner on the Independent Review Commission on the 2007 Elections (IREC) also known as the Kriegler Commission in 2008. She currently undertakes consultant services for diverse clients including the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs, the Ministry of Gender and KNCHR. On the evaluation grounds of academic qualification, professional competence, moral probity and capacity for political non-partisanship, the Committee found the nominee qualified. Let me pause at this moment and render some disclosure to the House with regard to this nominee. I invite the House to note that in the process of vetting this nominee, the Committee wishes to bring to the attention of the House some allegation that was brought to its attention in the course of vetting Ms. Muma. Indeed, Ms. Muma, to her credit, had already volunteered information on the same matter of her own volition at the commencement of her vetting, subsequent to which the Committee received documentation regarding the same. The matter which is now subject of civil litigation arose from a report of the Efficiency Monitoring Unit (EMU) which had questioned some allowances paid to officers, including the nominee, when they served a taskforce established in 2002 by the National AIDS Control Council (NACC) to develop the law on HIV/AIDS. Ms. Muma served as joint secretary to the taskforce on secondment from the State Law Office. The Committee considered this matter at length and even invited the"
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