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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": ".: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. This amendment on the Bill by Sen. M. Kajwang' is pretty straight forward. In the days when Parliament was Parliament, in fact these amendments would come through an omnibus Bill. We do not need to make these corrections in such an elaborate Bill. Since the omnibus Bills come with more details, like the one that was stood on by the Senate Majority Leader, it now becomes necessary to make amendments of this nature. In fact, when I appeared before the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) this morning and we were talking about legislative reforms, a clause like this one that Sen. M. Kajwang' is amending would not have passed this Senate. A proposal in the Act says- “The names of persons proposed for appointment under subsection (1)(a) and (h) shall, before they are appointed, be laid before the National Assembly for approval.” It does not even say “vetting;” it says, “for approval.” In modern parlance, it can only mean that this is lobbying. It is just lobbying because if the law is talking about vetting, this is talking about approval. What are they approving? What framework are they using? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, since when did the National Assembly get the mandate to do such things? It almost looks like clerkship. They are doing the clerk’s work. Even, we, in the Senate cannot do this. It is the work of the board. It is actually standard practice all over the world. I would attribute it to bad drafting, but it cannot be bad drafting. It is just somebody somewhere--- Maybe Sen. M. Kajwang' did not tell us why the National Assembly has such interests in vetting a CEO of fisheries. I do not understand that portion. Maybe it is the idea of coming from the Lake."
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