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    "id": 919419,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I support this amendment with one side of my heart. As a House, we must always follow what we do in this House, especially when we are creating other commissions. There are commissions where you serve for a term of six years, and which is not renewable. There are some which one serves for a term of four years. But this is good. They are proposing five years. I do not know where the five years came from. In most commissions, it is four years renewable and so, you serve twice for eight years. We have no problem with five years. This is in line with the Mwongozo principles. This is because even Speakers of both Houses serve for two terms. Most of the Speakers have served for two terms. This culture where a clerk wants to live in this building for 20 or 30 years must end. You stay until you “grow your head” and then you get even more powerful than the speakers. So, clerks must serve for five years. If they reach 60 years, they go home. If they do not perform well, they should be sacked by the Commission and they become accounting staff. In fact, we will bring an amendment to this law that even in future, anybody who is above the position of Deputy Director must be on contract and it should be based on one’s performance. As Hon. Kioni was saying, we must protect our integrity. Our parliamentary jurisdiction must be one of the best. So, we must get staff who are very competent and who know their work. We do not want to have staff who, because they are employed by a commissioner, cannot even write a good report. So, clerks and any other member of staff must work very hard. We should respect the integrity of Parliament. We do not want Parliament to be the dumping ground for staff. Even us, we have our people! Going forward, we must have more Turkanas and Samburus working in this Parliament. All Kenyans must be given an opportunity. Clerks must serve for five years, renewable based on performance."
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