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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah",
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    "content": "As I mentioned earlier, the term of the fourth Assembly that Hon. Wanjiku Muhia and Hon. Jematiah, who is also here, are Members comes to an end on 17th December this year. The fifth Assembly is expected to commence its sittings early in 2023. Therefore, Members know that the Parliament of Kenya is required to conduct the election of its Members to EALA latest by 17th December 2022. However, the elections were not carried out immediately as the 12th Parliament ended on 10th June. Members remember that we took our sine die adjournment in June. We could not carry out the elections for the Members who would have replaced the outgoing ones. Therefore, this 13th Parliament is required to conclude this process urgently for the EALA to commence transacting its business, and avoid the scenario that we witnessed in the last elections of the Members of the Assembly in 2017. We are within time. However, it is very important to establish this Committee before we go on recess from tomorrow. As the other two Committees—Committee on Appointments and Committee on Selection— are working, they may also now reconstitute and begin to prepare the timetable and programme that will guide us to conduct the elections. They will also guide us on when they will advertise for the positions. The entire timetable is to enable us come back and elect our new Members to EALA. With the passage of this Motion and that in the Senate, it may as well serve as a notice to those who are out there. Nobody seated here is electable to EALA but I know many of our colleagues whom we were with in the 12th Parliament who are interested. They may as well be notified through the passage of this Motion that the process has begun and they can therefore begin their campaigns and they will be guided by the Committee. With those many remarks, I beg to move. I will ask the Leader of the Minority Party, Hon. Opiyo Wandayi, to second this Motion. Thank you."
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