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    "id": 1209645,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kathuri",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Murungi Kathuri",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. I support the Bill as was moved by the Senate Majority Leader. We need to get the selection of IEBC commissioners right straight from the word go. I would be happy if we moved away from controversies because we should now be focusing on the general elections for 2027. We need to move together as a team. Let us not be partisan on issues legislation. As the Senator for Nairobi City County has said, this is not about the parties that participated in the 2022 elections. It is about the future. We do not know what will happen tomorrow. I can already see many political handshakes here and there. We should, therefore, legislate for posterity. I will be very happy to support whatever came from the National Assembly so that the two Houses of Parliament move forward together magnanimously. The Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights has made suggestion to give slots to various players, for example; two slots should be given to the Interreligious Council of Kenya. We have various diversities in our religious organizations. I am also happy that the Committee specified that the two nominees appointed by the Parliamentary Service Commission; one should be from the Majority side and the other one from the Minority side. I think that is a fair proposal. Previously, the Parliamentary Service Commission had four slots and there was no specification on how those four could be shared. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the report from the National Assembly is fair. I am glad that the Political Parties Liaison Committee (PPLC) will also get a slot because the players there are the small political parties some of which are represented in Parliament and others, which did not get any slot. It is important to also move with them."
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