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    "id": 1151398,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "documents and to examine witnesses and parties on oath; (c) publish the names of persons or institutions whose words or conduct may undermine or have undermined or contributed towards undermining good ethnic relations, or who are involved in ethnic discriminations or propagation of ethnic hatred. This redefining of their mandate is to ensure that they are able to perform unlike the provisions that we had previously in the Act that we seek to repeal. Mr Speaker Sir, the act of naming and shaming has been there. The provision has been there but has never been effected. We seek to give teeth and more provisions on how they will perform their work. The Bill provides that apart from having just offices and headquarters in Nairobi, it shall have branches throughout the country. Clause 8 of the Bill as proposed has now provided for branches through out the country. This will ensure that they are able to perform functions. As I said, we should give them more motivated staf to enable them do their work. At this time of elections, I am sure the Commission would want to have effective branches monitoring how we are conducting ourselves and how we have non-violent conduct and how the Commission can effectively get reports from all over the country. They cannot sit and be able to monitor the whole country from Nairobi. We therefore propose that they have branch offices across the country so that they are able to perform. Of course, that goes along side with the funding which we are insisting should be moved from that Directorate to the Commission for them to be able to perform. Another problem that we seek to solve as we introduce this new Bill is how commissioners are appointed. I sit in the National Cohesion and Integration Committee of this House. We noted that for quite sometime there was no Commission in place. It took so long and a lot of wrongs were going on and there was nothing that could be done. As a Committee, we summoned the Commission Secretariat. They told us they could not act because they did not have commissioners in place. For some reason, there was no clear provision that had been provided on how to pick the commissioners. That was until the court had to make a ruling that there was no compliance in as far as the commissioners’ appointment was concerned because this was just a constitutional"
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