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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah",
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    "content": "We have tried to cure that issue that was raised by the High Court in this amendment Bill. Clause 2 of the Bill now proposes that instead of four persons being nominated by the PSC, we will have one man and one woman being nominated by the PSC to conform with the issue of gender parity. We will also have one person nominated by the Public Service Commission. One other person will be nominated by the Political Parties Liaison Committee (PPLC). It is important to inform Members and the country on the need to have a person nominated by the PPLC. In the last Parliament when the selection panel was set up, only two political parties – the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Party and one wing of the Jubilee Party – nominated the panel that moved on to nominate the four Commissioners whose mandate you have decided on today. It tells you how precarious the process of nomination of Commissioners and the panel that interviews them is. We followed a process where only ODM and its leader, the then leader of the minority faction of Jubilee, former President Uhuru Kenyatta, and the then leadership of the House nominated the selection panel. It is only the two of them and the then leadership of the House that nominated Members who would sit in the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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