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    "id": 1065022,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldama Ravine, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Lessonet",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Lessonet",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to invite your ruling on the issue that the 47 County Assemblies went through various documents with the errors that have been alluded to. We can call them typographical errors but we must remain alive to the fact that they have gone through Assemblies like this one. The County Assembly of Baringo in Kabarnet is as good as the National Assembly of Kenya. In your ruling, I want you to address the reason why we cannot send the correct document to those assemblies for processing yet we still have enough time. Secondly, I want to talk about the independence of this House, the Judiciary and the Executive. In Clause 61, there is a presidential prerogative on the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC). Currently, the composition of the SRC requires the President to nominate one person while the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), the Public Service Commission, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) are each required to nominate one person. Fourteen nominees are currently appointed by various organs but more importantly the PSC and the JSC being the other arms of Government. In this Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) proposal, there will be 7 commissioners appointed by one Arm of the Government - Presidency. The import of the current Constitution is the independence of the Legislature, Judiciary and the Executive. It is not right to give only one arm of the Government responsibility over SRC because it will affect the independence of the other arms. In a nutshell, I am saying that this constitutional Amendment Bill might be unconstitutional. As you make your ruling, I hope you will not be the Speaker who will have made this House redundant and diluted its independence through the SRC. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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