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    "id": 1426795,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Omtatah, went to court on this particular matter. For the very first time, I think he agreed with Parliament. He said that Parliament was the only nominating body of that Selection Panel that did their nomination competitively. The rest of the nominating agencies such as the Public Service Commission (PSC), Inter-religious Council and the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) did it in a way that could not be understood. We have provided it and made it specific in various sections of these clauses in this Bill. We have inserted a new Clause 2(b) that states that the respective nominating bodies shall select nominees for appointment through a competitive and transparent process. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what are these nominating bodies? You know for a fact that our colleague, Sen. Omtatah, went to court on Parliament having four members out of seven members of the Selection Panel. The courts seem to have agreed that Parliament had over-rewarded itself. I do not agree with that provision because I do not know of any other institution that represents all shades of opinion than Parliament itself. In this House, you will find the Majority and the Minority. However, be that as it may, as the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) at that time, we agreed with that decision and decided to reduce the nomination of Parliament from four to two. That is such that Parliament will only nominate two members of the Selection Panel. One shall be from the Majority Party or coalition of parties and the other one shall be from the Minority Party or coalition of parties through a competitive process. That is a consultation that shall be led by PSC. We have also made a provision that the Political Parties Liaison Committee (PPLC); a body that brings together various political parties to have three nominees in this Selection Panel. However, we have defined how each of those three are nominated. Two of them have to be from parties, and as stated in Clause 1, one shall be from a party other than a parliamentary party. This is because there are many political parties in the PPLC. Unfortunately, if it was left as was the case previously, the non- parliamentary political parties are more than the parties in Parliament. I do not want to call them what people normally refer to them as briefcase political parties. My good friend, Sen. Eddy Oketch, will understand them better because I know previously, in his attempt to come to this House, he ran on one such political party. We broke it down quite elaborately, that those parties that do not have representation in Parliament shall nominate one and the other two shall be from parties that are in Parliament. One shall be from the majority party while the other one shall be from the minority coalition of parties within PPLC. Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, then, there is a nominee from LSK and another from the Institute of Certified Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK); a body that brings together our certified accountants in the country. Remember I had earlier on spoken to the need to have accountants; people who can do basic addition and subtraction, much as it appears to be too obvious. Then, finally, two persons that are nominated by the Inter-religious Council of Kenya. Finally, it is just to provide for the dissolution of the selection panel- The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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