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"content": "2. Sen. Aaron Cheruiyot; 3. Sen. Rose Nyamunga; and, 4. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Junior. It is good for Members to know what the Committee was mandated to do. It was, first of all, to suggest appropriate timelines for purposes of identification, nomination and election of EALA members, which we have done. I think most of the things that I am not going to say were in my statement last week, when I updated the House on the progress. The Committee was also mandated to consider the nominees, oversee the election process and report to the respective Houses within the timelines stipulated in the election rules. Thirdly, the Committee was mandated to do any other function as contemplated under the EALA (Election of Members of the Assembly) Rules, 2017, within the timelines stipulated in the said rules. This process had timelines, and all these rules are annexed as Annex II in the Report. That is why we want to conclude it today. The deadline as per the timelines is Thursday next week. We should have completed the whole process. So, the election timelines are in the Report. I just want to mention two things. One, there was an entitlement for nomination. The number of candidates that each party shall be entitled, in accordance with Rule 6(1), to nominate is three times the figure arrived at by multiplying the number of elected Members of that party by such number as the joint committee shall determine and dividing the result by the total number of elected Members of Parliament, which is 416 because of the two Houses. Under Rule 9, a person intending to vie for election, independent of political parties - because the rules say it is the political parties that nominate members to go to EALA - has to submit duly filled nomination forms in the format prescribed in the Second Schedule to a presiding officer, in this case, the Clerks of the two Houses, in a manner specified in the notice published under Rule 4. As I said last week, we published a Gazette Notice and in newspapers in accordance with Rule 10. I raise this issue because it will come up. We are even aware that there are some court cases about the eligibility of independent candidates. This Committee fast-tracked everything. We had only three sittings and we completed the work. We did an invitation for application for EALA in accordance with Rule 4. After that, there was the list of applicants per political parties. As I said, they were 208 applicants in total: 111 from the Jubilee Party, 43 from ODM, eight from Wiper, four from ANC, four from EFP, four from KANU, three from FORD-Kenya, two from KPP, two from PDR, one from FAP, one from DP, one from PNU and 24 independent candidates. Mind you, there are only nine slots for grabs. Then there was a pre-nomination briefing which was done in accordance with Rule 7. It was done on 27th November by the presiding officers, basically to party leaders in the two Houses, the Majority and Minority leaders. They were briefed. Then there was the nomination day, which was 30th November 2017. In the report presented by the presiding officers to the joint committee on the nominations process, out of the 208, the NASA Coalition returned 12 names and the Jubilee Party returned 15 names. The sorting was being done by the political parties themselves. But the independent candidates were all received by the presiding officers because they do not have political parties. There were 24 independent candidates, but 13 did not make The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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