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    "id": 1411935,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1411935/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "can tally numbers other than ICPAK, just like lawyers are represented by LSK. (f) Two persons shall be nominated by the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya (ICK). This, again, is as the case that has been in place, where the ICK had two members nominated to this panel. Further, the Bill proposes amendments to the IEBC Act to provide that the selectin panel shall finalise the recruitment exercise within 90 days of its appointment and forward the names of the nominees to the President. It shall thereafter stand dissolved. Given the urgency of this matter, the prescribed timeline as agreed is geared towards ensuring that the selection panel recruitment process is concluded within the stipulated timeline. The Act that we seek to amend did not provide for a timeline. Kenyans, especially the ones from Banissa Constituency, had to go to court to instigate a closure of the process because under the current Act, the process is open-ended. Until the panel concludes the process, nobody or nothing in law tells them that they must recruit commissioners within a certain period. We are now seeking to amend the law to ensure that it is no longer an open-ended process but is time bound. Therefore, once this Bill becomes an Act of Parliament and the panel is constituted, it must recruit commissioners within 90 days. They will take office and begin the work of either conducting by-elections or preparing for the next general election, and the very important process of boundaries delimitation ahead of time. We are cognisant, even within NADCO, of the need, as recommended by the Kriegler Commission, not to have boundaries delimited very close to a general election or to have very many electoral reforms and changes in the electoral processes very close to elections. This provision seeks to address that concern."
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