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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah",
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    "content": "then selection panel that led to the appointment of the four Commissioners that have been petitioned against. Hon. Speaker, what we have done other than allowing the Parliamentary Service Commission now or a few political parties, it would have been very easy to get the leadership of Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Alliance and Kenya Kwanza Alliance to nominate people to sit in this panel, but we have now expanded this to a situation where all political parties that are registered, and have a unit under the Office of Registrar of Political Parties under the Liaison Committee, participate in the selection of the members of the panel that will then interview Commissioners. For this reason, we are getting one person who will be nominated by the Political Parties Liaison Committee that sits in the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties to ensure that even non-parliamentary political parties or parties that do not even have a Member of County Assembly(MCA) but have registered their political parties with the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties have a stake and a say as to who sits in this panel that will do the work of identifying and interviewing the Commissioners who will take over from the current Commission. Hon. Speaker, there is one person nominated by the Law Society of Kenya, and two persons who will be nominated by the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya. These provisions, will then, cure the unconstitutionality that was found in the Bill or the Act as it existed by the High Court in the Petition filed by Hon. Okiya Omtatah versus the Attorney-General and five others. I, therefore, want to beg that Members support this amendment. It is a very short Bill, but will go a long way in helping the country to move forward to ensure that there is no vacuum in the IEBC office. The country will then be able to move forward, and have a panel which will help in identifying other Commissioners to succeed the current ones. With that, I beg to move and request Hon. Wakili Muriu, a Member of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee to second. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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