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"speaker_name": "Uasin Gishu County, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Gladys Boss",
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"content": " Hon. Speaker, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 44(2)(b), as read together with Standing Order 179(14), I rise to make a Statement regarding the leadership of the Select Committees. Standing Order 179(14) requires the Chairperson of the Liaison Committee, by way of a Statement, to notify the House of the duly elected Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of a Committee when the House next sits after the conduct of an election. At the commencement of the fourth session, on 11th February 2025, vide Communication No. 001 of 2025, you informed the House that the term of the various Select Committees had lapsed on that very day in line with the applicable laws, Standing Orders and practice. Consequently, the Committee on Selection, which is mandated under Standing Order 173 to nominate members to serve in committees, save for the membership of the House Business Committee and the Committee on Appointments, submitted a Motion to the House on the reconstitution of committees. The House will recall that on Wednesday, 5th March 2025, and Thursday, 6th March 2025, we approved the appointment of Members to the lapsed committees and made consequential changes to other committees. Following the reconstitution of the various committees, the Clerk of the National Assembly, in the exercise of the powers conferred under the provisions of Standing Order 179(2), declared the vacancies in the offices of the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of the reconstituted committees. The Clerk also declared vacancies in the committees affected by the consequential changes. To facilitate elections, and pursuant to Standing Order 179(2), the Clerk appointed Wednesday, 12th March 2025 and Thursday, 13th March 2025, as the dates for the elections. Further to compliance with the Standing Orders, on 6th March 2025, the Clerk published and circulated a schedule of committees, indicating the venues and times of holding the meetings for purposes of conducting the elections. Hon. Speaker, in line with the provision of the Standing Orders, the affected House committees conducted and concluded elections of Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons as scheduled. In this regard, I wish to report to the House that all the 18 reconstituted Committees under the category of Audit, Appropriations and General-Purpose Committees, and nine Departmental Committees, affected by the resolution of the House of Tuesday, 11th March 2025, elected their Leadership as follows:"
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