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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Clement Kigano (",
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    "content": "The Committee therefore considered the question of gender in light of Article 250 (4) of the Constitution which states that appointment to commissions and independent offices shall take into account the national values referred to in Article 10 and the principle that the composition of the commission and independent offices be taken as a whole. I underpin that phrase, taken as whole. Members’ attention is drawn to the qualifying rider. It alludes to the composition of the Commission and offices taken as a whole. So, I submit that it is the composite of the Commission taken as a whole; not one individual commissioner. The Committee’s attention was also drawn to the judgement on Petition No.4446 of 2016 in the matter of the National Gender and Equality Commission versus the Judicial Service Commission that was rendered on 12th May 2017, where the court stated that the Supreme Court then—with five men and two women—was properly constituted. This ratio, therefore, applies to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), which when fully constituted after we supply the four commissioners, shall have a composition of five men and two women, just like the case in the Supreme Court. Hon. Speaker, the Committee’s attention was also drawn to a letter from the IEBC to the Clerk of the National Assembly, dated 26th August 2021, which is annexed in the Report; verifying and confirming that in terms of Article 88 (2) of the Constitution, none of the four nominees has held or stood for elective office as a Member of Parliament or County Assembly within the preceding five years. All the four nominees, as Members may read from the Report, have impeccable academic qualifications as follows: 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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