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    "id": 1009876,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rarieda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Otiende Amollo",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Otiende Amollo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to second this Motion. It is a simple and clear Motion. I urge Members to support this amendment of the Senate wholly, and preferably, without any sort of amendment for the simple reason that if we go that way, then we will still be in danger of not having a properly constituted Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). First, I second this Motion because there is a lacuna in the law. The current law only provided for appointment of the current Commissioners and no other. That is the only reason why so far, we have been unable to fill the four vacancies that arose. What the Senate did, which is reasonable in the opinion of the Committee, was to reduce the very complex and elaborate process of appointing the appointing Committee which had 11 members, but which have now been reduced to seven. Of those seven members, four of them are to be appointed by the Parliamentary Service Commission, two of them by the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya and one by the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), which now makes it seven. The Committee viewed that as quite reasonable. It reduces the complexity."
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