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    "id": 1108028,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "hearings and how were they solved? In the proposed in the Bill, the tribunal is insufficient. What tribunal has been proposed? They proposed the Chair and four other Members, making them five. Of course, they gave qualifications to do this, but this was not the issue. When all these people came before the Committee, we did a round table and discussed. We even sent the Attorney- General, the Department for Housing and our legal team to go and relook at it because the question then would be; if you have a tribunal of only five people with Chair, Vice Chair and three or four other people, how do you resolve issues across the country? That became a challenge. So, what happened? We synchronised and even tried to model it with the Office of the Attorney-General and the State Department for Housing. What we are proposing, which you will now see during the Committee of the whole House, is that the Chief Justice appoints one Chair and a number of deputies. We did not give a limit. Of course after consultation, we agreed with the participants and members of the public that the Chief Justice shall appoint the deputies depending on the number of issues to be resolved in the country. So, if it is Kisumu, it will be appointed for Kisumu. In fact, there is even a debate that says do we appoint five people to sit in Kisumu as a panel? It became very expensive and we are proposing that if, for example, one judge in Kisumu can sit and resolve issues, what about tribunal issues? So, we proposed that one person can actually handle those issues and if the Chief Justice finds it fit that she needs three people to sit in Kisumu, then the Chair of the tribunal can then make a panel of a number of people. We did not give a limit. We said, let it be determined by need. This is because there might be issues in Eldoret like house issues and rental issues, business houses and residential houses. The Chief Justice can then be able to have somebody in Eldoret, Kisumu and any other town in this country where issues come from."
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