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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Russia but within Nairobi, transacting the businesses which we are elected to transact as members of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. We took time and adjourned to watch what was happening. The news which came from mainstream and social media was how Parliament can be sitting down taking their time, engaging public resources to vet a potential holder of a public office they know is charged and is being actively prosecuted before the court of law. I believe this is something which all of us know. A Kenya seated somewhere paused this question to me. A criminal suspect undergoing active prosecution for corruption before a court of law being vetted for suitability to hold public office by Parliament in a nation which claims to fight corruption? I found myself very antagonised in terms of my duties as a Parliamentarian and, of course, as a leader. I am seeking your guidance on this matter in terms of how the committee proceeds, particularly on two issues. One, it being the case that in our Standing Orders, we do not have provisions for summary process of procedure, and it being the case that once a person is remitted to this House for consideration for approval or otherwise for appointment to public office, we have timelines within which we have to execute that mandate vested upon us by the Constitution. How do we proceed in a situation such as this? Is there need for us to amend the Standing Orders to be in line with the mood of the nation on particular issues which stand on our national values and the Constitution or what do we do in the situation we are in? Absent in that direction, the general public is not seeing us to be pulling along in the direction of the national leadership, which His Excellency the President wants us to."
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