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    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I want to pick from where my good friend, Hon. Otiende Amollo has left. I just want to remind him that this is a House of records, procedures and traditions. In the 11th Parliament, I can vividly remember when one Ouko, the Auditor-General had a similar issue initiated through the Departmental Committee on Finance and Planning. Hon. Otiende Amollo who had just retired from being the CEO of Ombudsman attempted to represent him. It is good to be factual because circumstances change. At that particular time, Otiende Amollo was fresh from being the immediate former CEO of Ombudsman. He realised that one of his friends had a problem with this very institution and today he is on the other side as a Member of Parliament participating in a similar process, but prosecuting in a manner that negates the very things that he said on that particular day. I will come with the facts at an opportune time. This is a House of tradition and records; a House that is supposed to legislate through constitutional mechanism. If you want to use political gerrymandering – I have looked at the time when this purported audited report being referred to was done. There were seven commissioners. One of the commissioners is missing from the list. That tells the political connotation of this particular report. I want to associate myself with the sentiments by the Chairman of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee. The work of PAC is stipulated under Standing Order 205 and as a Departmental Committee stipulated under Standing Order No. 216, the framers of the current Constitution and the Standing Orders had in mind the role of each of the committees. I have been a Chair of Public Investment Committee. I clearly participated in the drafting and framing of the current Standing Orders and some of the things that we removed were meant to avoid a situation where there will be duplication and jurisdictional conflict amongst committees. That has been sorted out. That is why the other day, when you ably ruled on the mandate of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing and PIC, I said that the Speaker is alive to some of the challenges that we have had in the past. This House in its own wisdom passed a law called the Fair Administrative Action Act, 2015. This as read with Article 50 clearly allows for a fair process in the removal of 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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