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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "ACKNOWLEDGING THAT since its establishment, the Committee has made tremendous progress in exercise of its mandate and has achieved the following milestones: Formulated and adopted the framework agreement; framed and adopted the statement of issues; unbundled the issues and agreed on prioritisation of issues; harmonised the unbundled issues; conducted public participation and stakeholder engagements in line with the requirements of Article 10 of the Constitution and examined and analysed the memoranda that were received from the public and stakeholder submissions; FURTHER COGNISANT that the Committee is presently in the process of considering the issues for negotiations and recommending appropriate constitutional, legal and policy reforms on each of the framed issues, which are electoral justice and related matters; outstanding constitutional matters; fidelity to political parties/coalitions and the law on multiparty democracy; entrenching the National Government Constituencies Development Fund, the National Government Affirmative Action Fund, and the Senate Oversight Fund into the Constitution and Establishment and Entrenchment of State Offices; CONSCIOUS that the Resolution as passed by both Houses of Parliament, required the Committee to report to the leadership of Kenya Kwanza and Azimio coalitions within 60 days, from 29th August 2023; RECOGNISING the need for the Committee to conclude the consideration of the issues for negotiations, the process of making the appropriate constitutional, legal and policy reforms on each of the issues as framed by the Committee and preparation of a report for submission to the leadership of Kenya Kwanza and Azimio coalitions and thereafter, to Parliament; NOW, THEREFORE, the Houses of Parliament RESOLVE to extend the mandate of the National Dialogue Committee by a further 30 days from 28th October 2023 and consequently, the Committee shall be required to report to the leadership of Kenya Kwanza and Azimio coalitions on or before 26th November 2023, and thereafter submit its Report to Parliament. Hon. Speaker, as the Motion states, we resolved in the National Dialogue Committee to seek an extension of our mandate from the envisaged initial period of 60 days by a further 30 days. The Motion is self-explanatory. We have covered a lot of ground in the last 50 or so days, but with less than ten days to go, we took a break this week to allow the technical teams and the secretariat to put together the issues we agreed on last week. They will also frame the issues we have divergent opinions on and those on which we converge in opinion so that we can quickly negotiate. As you are aware, having been a seasoned and number one diplomat when you were the Minister for Foreign Affairs, matters to do with dialogue and negotiations are lengthy and delicate. We do not want to rush into them. We also wish our technical teams to guide the Committee in terms of constitutional and legal provisions and to develop draft legislative and constitutional interventions to form part of our report. We realised that we might not complete that within the time left. As we resume negotiations next week, we will only have about five days from Monday to Friday, as the period lapses on Saturday, 28th October. We, therefore, sought to come back and seek the concurrence of both Houses to allow us more time to engage and consider all the issues in line with Article 10 of the Constitution. We also want to engage with the memoranda and the stakeholder engagements we listened to. Members following the Committee’s proceedings will notice that we engaged with over 60 stakeholders in about five days. There were 704 individuals or entities drawn from stakeholders who appeared before the Committee. A similar number sent memoranda through e-mail and handwritten form, including Members of Parliament. Some of the Members are The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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