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    "id": 1440828,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. TJ Kajwang’",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, we should accede to and pass this Bill. As the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, we were able to look at it and it only had three issues which were not really in contention, which as a matter of oversight, we may have passed the Bill to the Senate without looking at it thoroughly in terms of defining a parliamentary party. We defined parliamentary party in the National Assembly, but somehow, we did not define it for the benefit of the Senate. So, they adjusted that. Secondly, we have the Report of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. In the parent Act before the bicameral system, it used to come to the National Assembly. Again, we did not see that now we have two Houses, and they have corrected that. The third thing is that they have added 10 years’ experience in matters of law, ICT among others. Of course, Generation Z will really suffer. But again, experience is also a good thing for management of an office. I had said in the Committee, perhaps, on ICT, they should allow Generation Z without a fetter of age. But it would seem that already the Senate was minded to make these 10 years. It is consistent with many of the existing laws. Of all that, the only matter that, probably, will bring issues on the selection panel is the nominee other than the parliamentary party, the people who are out there. It calls on that Political Parties Liaison Office to know how to go through the parameters of transparency, qualifications, and eligibility, not just to handpick a friend, but go through a verifiable criterion, by which that member of the panel should be. I support, and we should accede to this without necessarily going for mediation. Thank you very much."
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