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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Motion. I sit in the Committee that did the vetting but I only want to raise one issue. First of all, I want to congratulate Members of that Committee for pioneering the vetting which is now envisaged in our Constitution. The more this happens, the less of what we are seeing in the House. We are coming from a past where people were used to making appointments arbitrarily without reference to the House. I am very happy, but I want to urge Ministers not to be afraid of Parliamentary Committees. We shall help them in their work, so that we give Kenyans people who are worthy of appointment to public office. The noise which we are seeing around the country today may sound mere politics, but I can tell you that it is the beginning of the end of Kenya as we know it. I was recently referred to read a book written by the Prime Minister of Singapore. It is entitled “Third World to the First World.” The story is very interesting because when Singapore occasioned the Constitution which has made it a first world, all the Prime Minister’s men and women had to disappear. Many of them found themselves in jail and even one of his deputies had to run away and till today, he lives in Bangkok. The point I am trying to make is that we may have passed this law that requires us to be accountable in some kind of ways without realizing the consequences which are facing us. So, I want to plead that we do more of this, but I also want to say that it is the responsibility of this Parliament to accept what is coming. It is not only going to be Cabinet Ministers. There are many of us even in the Back bench, who in the eyes of Kenyans are not fit to hold public offices."
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