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    "id": 880842,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me an opportunity to speak to this issue. My understanding as to why we have independent and constitutional offices was because of where we came from under the old Constitution. We have constitutional offices because we need to shield them a little more than it was, perhaps, under the old Constitution. I know there are many issues that have been raised by Members, including Article 73 and the rest. As you make your ruling, pay attention to Article 47 and 50 on the issues of fair hearing. It is important that when we are discussing commissioners of various constitutional commissions, we establish whether they have been given an opportunity to be heard. That whole process must be done. Hon. Washiali is saying the Sugar Report. I do not know what went through under it. I know we need to ensure that every holder of public office has public trust. However, we have to be careful as Parliament so that we do not subject those commissioners to a process of making them lose public trust. In the past, we have suffered in this country because we put IEBC and other commissioners in a conveyor belt of wanting to get them out. In the process, as a nation, we lose trust in that institution. This Report, with those kinds of recommendations, without going through Article 251 of the Constitution of dealing with that issue in a judicial manner, uses Parliament to help the public to start losing their trust. In other words, what I fear this Report is helping us to do is exactly what Hon. Otiende was saying we should not do. We are making the public lose their trust in 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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