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    "content": "On 29th January 2018 the President of the Republic of Kenya forwarded to the National Assembly for consideration and approval the notification of nomination of nine individuals nominated for appointment as Cabinet Secretaries. This was in accordance to Article 152(2) and Section 5 of the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act 2011. I have just read out the names of the nine nominees and their respective ministries. Pursuant to Standing Order 42(1) and subsequently following the Procedural Motion moved on 14th December 2017 to exempt the business from the provisions of Standing Order 42(1), the House resolved that notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order 42 relating to reading and laying of messages from the President, and in furtherance to the provisions of Articles 152(2) and 156(2) of the Constitution, during the period before commencement of the Second Session of the 12thParliament – which started yesterday – upon receipt of names of persons nominated for appointment to State offices from the President, the Speaker would submit them to the committees. On Wednesday 31st January 2018, again pursuant to Section 6(3) of the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act 2011, the writing invited each of the nominees for vetting hearings indicating the time and place of holding the approval hearing. On Wednesday 31st January, the Clerk of the National Assembly wrote to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) and the Registrar of Political Parties requesting for reports with respect to the nominees on the following: Matters touching on their integrity, their tax compliance status, their political affiliation and whether they have repaid their university loans. I want to confirm to the House and the nation that we have received clearance for all the nominees from the KRA on tax compliance, reports from the DCI, the HELB and the Registrar of Political Parties. However, the EACC indicated that they have received allegations against Hon. Peter Munya and Hon. Ukur Yatani but further indicated that the investigations so far on those two nominees had not implicated or found them culpable. So, in principle, the EACC have given the nine nominees a clean bill of health. The Committee held 14 sittings. The nominees appeared before the Committee that the Speaker chairs on 8th and 9th of February 2018 and they were vetted in accordance with the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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