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    "id": 981056,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "The second one is the appointment of the CEO. Again, it is standard practice that CEOs are appointed by a board, and there is a reason similar to what I have raised before. If the Cabinet Secretary (CS) is busy doing all these things in conjunction with the board, who is the CEO supposed to report to? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the previous Section, who is the CEO supposed to go to? In fact, the previous Section undermines both the CS and the Board. This is because if I am vetted by the National Assembly, what is the business of the board asking me questions? I am actually an employee of the National Assembly, strictly speaking. It is the same way we take pride in summoning CSs, because we have vetted them. They are substantially employees of Parliament. That is where CSs of Jubilee Government have failed to understand that they are primarily the employees of Parliament, but get their appointment letters from the President. So, they should report to Parliament. The is the way it is structured here; this CEO will report to the National Assembly. It is a contradiction. Not even to the extent that this matter is devolved but to the extent where it does not say “Committee” but “the National Assembly.” It means everybody, including the Speaker. Therefore, the amendment is timely. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have not seen you in any of the rallies. When you get an opportunity, like I did today, you sing to the birds. If the birds can hear, sing from the top of the mountain that the legislative mandate of Parliament is exercised by the National Assembly and the Senate. Therefore, the right to look at some of these clauses would ideally come here for us to check. I support this amendment. I hope that Sen. M. Kajwang' will, at some point, come to us, as the person concerned with marketing and ideally production – I did not want to say “production” – of fish from his region, bring us in some form, a Statement to say--- First, I heard him say he is against the report that says that our source of fish in Lake Victoria has been poisoned. In the case of Athi River, which goes to Thwake, when the"
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