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    "id": 1009767,
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    "speaker_name": "Marakwet West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. William Kisang",
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        "legal_name": "William Kipkemoi Kisang",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, in line with your Communication dated 12th October 2020, you directed that the Departmental Committee undertakes approval hearing on the nominee within 14 days from 13th October 2020. This implies that the approval hearing and debate by the House ought to be concluded by 27th of this month. In your Communication, you also noted that the 14 days period within which the Committee is expected to consider the nominee and table the report for debate will lapse during the short recess that we are proceeding to today. Therefore, the Committee seeks extension of time for the 14 days that we have requested so that we can have time to do the approvals. As this House may be aware, the Office of the Data Protection Commission is the first office and that the nominee, if approved by the House, will oversee the implementation of and be responsible for the enforcement of the Data Protection Act 2019 that was passed last year and basically enacted. The commissioner would have been appointed by now but there was a court case and the court case was concluded. For the Committee to undertake due diligence and to ensure that we have the right person for this job, we seek the indulgence of this House so as to undertake the vetting exercise and be able to prepare a comprehensive report on the nominee so that Members can go through it. Already the Committee has done an advert in tomorrow’s newspaper for the public to submit any information on the nominee. It will be in the papers tomorrow. There is something that has been going on in the media. That is, TV, radio and newspapers that this particular person who will be appointed as a Data Commissioner will replace an employee of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). I wanted to tell Kenyans and this House that this is a new office that will be under the Ministry of ICT and not within IEBC. This is because there is a lot of misconception out there. With those remarks, I beg to move and request my colleague, Hon. Osotsi, to second."
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