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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is a matter of public record that Mr. Wetangula is not the only Cabinet Minister who has been named in scandals. In fact, yesterday was a very interesting day to see the whole of the Front Bench full of Ministers, who hardly appear even to answer their own Questions. I hope that they will take heed. Soon enough, those who were mentioned in Goldenberg, Anglo Leasing and Triton scandals, and all those other scandals which have come before this House, will follow in the footsteps of Mr. Moses Wetangula and resign to enable investigations to take place. We are living in a new dispensation, and the new dispensation, as Mr. Kiunjuri said yesterday, is not about individuals. It is not about Mr. Moses Wetangula or the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is about institutional change in the manner that this country is administered. Those looking at the new Constitution will not have failed to see that we have a whole chapter on leadership and integrity. It is important to remind us what the constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, now requires in terms of leadership and integrity. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in Article 73, it says that authority assigned to a state officer is a public trust to be exercised in a manner that is consistent to the purposes and objects of this Constitution. The values of this Constitution are set out in Article 10. If you look at Article 10 (2)(c), among those values is good governance, integrity, transparency and accountability. We are not personalizing these issues---"
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