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    "id": 1375467,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "from seven to nine, will ensure a cross-section of views and interest groups accommodated within it. We are also creating a timeline, and the Panel will now be required to finalise the exercise within 90 days. From the day the Panel is appointed, they must complete the work and submit nominees to the President. Thereafter, they shall stand dissolved. We have also allowed both Houses of Parliament, using a simple majority, the latitude to extend timelines for this Panel should they need more time than the 90 days provided for under the new Act if we enact the legislative proposal to amend the IEBC Act, 2011. It is also noteworthy that the Committee has recommended a transitional clause that provides that the existing selection panel will cease to exist immediately on the Act's commencement date. But any person working in that Panel is eligible to be re-nominated by any of the nominating bodies. For instance, the Political Parties Liaison Committee, which had two nominees, will now have three nominees under the new Panel. Any of the nominees that were under that selection panel could be re-nominated by the Political Parties Liaison Committee, or the one under the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) can be re-nominated. The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) can re-nominate the same people if they so desire. Among other critical changes is a recommendation by the Committee to amend Article 89 of the Constitution on delimitation of boundaries. The courts have also pronounced themselves on delimitation of boundaries and we had a statutory deadline that lapses at the end of March, which is next month. Under these circumstances, it is therefore not practical to delimit boundaries within a few weeks of the adoption of this Report. We are proposing that Article 89 of the Constitution be amended to provide for extension of the period for review of the constituency boundaries by Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) where, as is the case now, the review of the names and boundaries of the constituencies is not completed within the time stipulated under Article 89 (2) of the Constitution. We will also be bringing those amendments."
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