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    "id": 1411998,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": "law, the person Hon. Wandayi is complaining about can be in office indefinitely. Therefore, the President must declare the vacancies within a given period. After that, we have made a proposal on the selection panel. The National Dialogue Committee has provided the nominating agencies here and said that they will do it in a competitive manner within 14 days. After that, the President will have seven days to name the selection panel. We also looked at additional qualifications as regards to the selection panel. Those with competency in ICT, accounting and mathematics are extremely important. We do not want people to plead ignorance; that they did not know what it was, that they never understood what was happening. The chairman has to have a high qualification of a Judge of the Supreme Court and the other members must possess degrees that are recognised in the country. There are also other set rules which they must comply with, and they must have proven knowledge and experience in accounting and ICT. We also had a discussion on quorum because we have seven commissioners. It may be onerous to make it that quorum will constitute five. So, our question was: Four is actually the majority, why do we not have quorum being four and the other three may be on standby just in case? Otherwise, there may be problems in the commission discharging its duties. We got wise counsel and we accepted it. The reason NADCO has provided that they be five is because if you have a quorum of four, which is an even number, there may be decisions required where votes are necessary. If you take a vote of four people, you will have a draw. We will have to think about a casting vote and we would also have to think about if there is no majority, the vote is lost. We actually saw sense in the NADCO provision that the quorum be five. There may be other amendments which we have proposed. Therefore, it is vitally important that every Member gets a copy of the Report of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, which we have tabled and go through it so that you acquaint yourselves with what we propose to do. This law is vitally important. We know very well that for almost two years, the country has run without the IEBC. Thank heavens, we have not had many of the problems which we would imagine. We do not want this to go on. Let us move with speed, constitute a selection panel, have the commissioners in place, and we begin with gusto what the IEBC is supposed to do, one of those ones being the delimitation and review of boundaries between wards and constituencies. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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