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    "id": 1110846,
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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": "Department for Trade, the Rent Restriction Tribunal, the Business Premises Restriction Tribunal and the Office of the Attorney-General appeared before the Committee. Various concerns were raised and we went through them. I would like to highlight just a few because of time. Of course, at the end we would have consolidated and provided solutions for the issues raised by the public and that is on page 23 of our Report. During the Committee of the whole House, there will be amendments. What were the critical issues that came from the hearings and how were they solved? In the proposed 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, 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 form a panel. We did not give a limit. We said, let it be determined by need. This is because there might be issues in Eldoret like rental issues, business houses and residential houses. The Chief Justice can then have somebody in Eldoret, Kisumu and any other town in this country where issues arise from."
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