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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I have submitted my amendments through the Committee Legal Counsel, Madam Marlene Ayiro. She has gone to check them at the Speaker’s desk. May I, therefore, move as we wait for that amendment that you declare Clause 7(a) and (b) outright unconstitutional and they be annulled from this Bill. These clauses say that if you are a Member of Parliament in (a), and in (b), if you are a member of the county assembly, you cannot be the Director-General of the Authority being proposed here. This is unconstitutional and a repetition. Under Article 260 of the Constitution, a Member of Parliament and an MCA are State officers. Under Chapter Six of the Constitution, a Member of Parliament and an MCA are already disqualified from holding any other position from which they can be in gainful employment. This provision flies in the face of the Constitution straight away. Without an amendment, I request that this Clause 7(a) and (b), be removed. Lastly, on (d), when you say, ‘…is convicted…’ When you are drawing a law in relation to qualifications… This means you will be waiting for them to be convicted upon taking the job. It should be, ‘has been convicted.’ If they are not being amended as we wait for our copy of the proposed amendments, Hon. Temporary Chairlady, would you declare them null and void? In which case, you do not need to nullify them yourself. Put the Question, we pass this clause with those amendments."
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