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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, having read out that provision of the Standing Orders, I will now go to Recommendation No.1 of the Committee which says that the nomination of the six persons of the National Police Service Commission was unconstitutional within the context of Article 246(2)(a)(i). So, without even making reference to The National Police Service Commission Act, and going by the Committee Report alone, this Report should not actually be debated in this House because even the Committee acknowledges that it is unconstitutional. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, having said so, I would like to draw the attention of hon. Members to a matter which was before the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs; namely, consideration of the list of persons nominated for appointment to The Political Parties Tribunal. When the names of the persons that were submitted to Parliament for approval were not considered appropriate by the Committee, we attempted to ask for other names, as a Committee but the Speaker told us then that when we are given names to scrutinise, our mandate is to either approve or reject those names. We could not go beyond either approving or rejecting the names. Therefore, on the same vein, on the one ambit I am indicating that the nomination was unconstitutional and on the other ambit I am saying that what the Committee has done is ultra vires because they have gone beyond their mandate. A Committee of Parliament cannot purport to add names which were not forwarded to Parliament. I have due respect and great admiration---"
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