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    "id": 977793,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Katoo ole Metito",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Janet Marania Teyiaa",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I also wanted to address the following issues: We always have time for public participation as allowed in the Constitution and also in the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act. If you look at the window the public is given to participate through writing memoranda to the Clerk of the National Assembly, many a times the public does not participate or write anything whether for or against the nominees. Like in this case, by close of business there was no memorandum whether for or against the nominees from the public. I think the public needs to participate in these exercises. There is no need of coming later to say that the National Assembly did not act in good faith or was not thorough in vetting of nominees. While the public was given a whole week to participate in the vetting process, they did not. An issue was raised by the Leader of the Minority Party, Hon. Mbadi who I want to support on honesty by nominees while filling the questionnaire. There is a very honest nominee who I know and that honesty has turned to haunt her. This afternoon a Notice of Motion has been given by the Chair of the Committee on Implementation for further rejection of that nominee by the House. That is Madam Mwende Mwinzi. After the nominees fill in the questionnaire, at the Committee level we lack the capacity to check whether what is said is correct or not, but we believe that since they filled under oath, they must have stated the correct position. One of the questions is for the nominee to fill whether he or she has dual citizenship and they are supposed to answer yes or no. Hon. Speaker, please protect me from Hon. Maoka Maore. He is consulting loudly and is a seasoned Member. He knows he should not stand in front of the person contributing. The honesty of nominees while filling these questions is important. If Madam Mwende Mwinzi did not indicate that she has dual citizenship we would not have known. The question is how many have not indicated their correct and truthful position in all the questions the way Hon. Mbadi said it in terms of their net worth. The nominees need to be honest. I know Hon. Mbadi has not heard what I have said and wants me to repeat but I will not. Again, according to the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act, 2011, there are many institutions that are supposed to do validation on behalf of this House. For example, the EACC, DCI, Higher Education Loans Board (HELB), Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and political parties. As a House we rely on the reports and certificates awarded by these institutions. You find all nominees including those before the House are cleared by the DCI and EACC and get their certificates of good conduct. These two institutions are very critical. The EACC has a standard form in which they indicate they do not have active investigation on the nominee. A good example given by the Leader of the Majority Party is the two ambassadors, Hon. Ali Wario and Mr. Richard Akai who were approved by this House. They both had been cleared by these institutions. The DCI gave them certificates of good conduct and EACC gave them a clean bill of health. At the Committee level these institutions are mandated by law to inform the House and the public the position of the nominees. But, after approval by the House within a month or two the nominees were recalled. This is because the same institutions said they have files on corruption or integrity issues against those nominees. Therefore, I support what the Committee on Appointments has proposed. That, it would be good to invite these institutions, talk to them face to face and ask questions about nominees they have cleared. So, the two key issues are honesty by nominees while filling the questionnaire 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."
}