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    "id": 880815,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "commissioners, not any politically-driven process that will just come up one morning and say, “I do not want Muturi” or “I do not want Otiende” or any other person. This is why in our own wisdom we must be guided by the rules of this House. Therefore, I disagree completely that it is not my work to vouch for retention of the current commission, but because this is the apex of any law-making organ of the Republic of Kenya, whatever we do must be devoid of partisan political interest of the day. That is why I stand to say what PAC wants to do is illogical, offends the Constitution and it is meant to sort out a problem through the back door. Truly, if Hon. Otiende and other groups think otherwise, I challenge you to bring a petition through a formal procedure and that will enable the public to participate. The JLAC will be seized of this issue. The merits of that particular petition will be subjected to the Kenyan taxpayers and evidence will be laid before the Committee and Parliament will be in position to make an informed decision. In my opinion, I urge the Speaker not to accept this particular report in the format that it is in. I want the Chair to answer this and if he does, then whatever they have done is devoid of politics. At the time when these procurement flaws were purportedly committed, there were seven commissioners. In your own wisdom you sanitised one and you were left with six. That is the first politics and it huge. I have the record. I want to say why it is unconstitutional. The spirit and letter of the Constitution must be devoid of any malicious and capricious approach and any attempt that offends the spirit of the Constitution. As a former Chair of PIC, I understand the functions of PAC and PIC; I want to support other components of the Report that clearly conform to the very mandate of PAC. But anything that deviates from that particular process that is meant to circumvent and use this House as a rubberstamp to sort out something that is completely outside the mandate of PAC, I reject it. I beg that we remain alive to this process and our role as Members of Parliament. I will be tabling the arguments by my good friend Otiende Amollo. It confirms word for word what I am saying. The only thing that has changed today is his level of political interest, his role as a Member of Parliament and more so, his desire to cure a serious national political problem through PAC. That we will not allow."
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