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    "id": 979907,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/979907/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "I had an experience over the long holiday with similar committees in the US Congress. We need to bring an amendment to the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act and do two things. First, extend the 14 days to a month, so that Parliament can have enough time to vet individuals. Two, remove the story that if the House does not vet nominees by expiry of 14 days, they are deemed to have been approved. That does not augur well in a developed democracy. It beats the whole point of vetting. If you have to vet and you are told that after 14 days, if you do not complete the vetting process it will be deemed to have been approved, then the whole essence and moral question behind vetting is lost. We now need to bring an amendment to extend the vetting process from 14 days to one month and also remove that “deemed”. We can do that through the initiative of a Member of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs or through the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill."
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