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    "speaker_name": "Ol Jorok, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Michael Muchira",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill of 2023. I would like to go straight to the specific Acts. Number one is the National Employment Authority Act. We have had an Authority which has not been able to recruit a substantive CEO due to the difficulties in the Act. The Act says the CEO must be below 35 years but must have experience of 5 years in management level. This cannot not be possible. Therefore, I support the amendment towards removal of that section. I also support the removal of the word “youth” in the Act, because there are too many jobseekers who are above 35 years but are yet to be in any meaningful job. On the Energy Act, I support the issue of including Kenya Power into the membership of the REREC. This will ensure seamless working relationship between REREC and Kenya Power and enhance electrification in our constituencies. We have had a situation where REREC does its work but the metering work, which is done by Kenya Power, takes too long because there is no seamless working relationship between the two. On the Children Act, I support granting male applicants the right to adopt a child. The Act is discriminatory. There is no way you can discriminate against a male applicant from adoption. The guiding principle in adopting a child is the best interest of the child. There are instances where the best interest of the child is with a male applicant. Finally, independence of the PSC and JSC is important. This House has supported independent offices before. In the last financial year, this House passed a resolution that the Auditor-General will have a one-line budget. This was meant to empower the Office of the Auditor- General in undertaking his or her work. The same case should apply to JSC and PSC, which are independent commissions. There is no way you would have a commission and then again purport to regulate the sittings of Parliament. Assuming Parliament is undertaking an investigation into something and then you purport to control the number of its sittings, that amounts to interference with the independence of the institution. Therefore, I support. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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