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    "id": 919165,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I thank the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. Currently and historically, the Clerks of Parliament even before the promulgation of the new Constitution and before the bicameral Parliament, used to be civil servants. So, we must go according to other jurisdictions. In the UK, the Clerk is the Principal Constitutional Adviser to the Houses. Secondly, he is not a civil servant and is supposed to be politically impartial. I support the amendment because we must insulate the Clerks. Hon. Keynan has an issue because Clause 19 sets out the Clerk shall, in each of their respective Houses, be responsible to the Commission for… One, they are appointees of the Commission. I advise Prof Oundo that in the 11th Parliament, under the new Constitution, the Accounting Officer for both Houses and the Joint Services used to be the Clerk of the Senate and the Secretary to the Commission. So, nothing was moving in the National Assembly. So, we amended the Public Finance Management Act and made the Clerk of the National Assembly an Accounting Officer for the National Assembly. Later, we realised that even then, there was a crisis in the Joint Services. Three weeks ago, we also gave the Director-General accounting power so that the Joint Services can handle human resource, staff and the gym that we keep talking about as an Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE) holder. So, from where I sit, the Chair is only giving the functions of the Clerks."
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