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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": " Sorry, Hon. Temporary Chairman. It is Hon. Ichung’wah who is interrupting me, even though he is managing both sides. Hon. Temporary Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 15 of the Bill be amended in paragraph (d) by deleting the words “permission of the Board” and substituting therefor the words “justifiable cause” For me, this is a governance issue because under (d), it provides that the office of a member of a Board other than the ex-official shall become vacant if the member is absent from three consecutive meetings of the Board without its permission. I think it is better practice if you say, ‘Either notifying the chairperson or without justifiable reason.’ We know the politics that are there in boards. Sometimes, somebody can be genuinely sick, request for permission, be denied, and then thrown out. It should, therefore, be upon them to prove that there was a justifiable reason. It is good governance practice."
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