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    "id": 297999,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Onyancha",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Charles Onyancha",
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    "content": "Secondly, Section 8 of the Bill refers to the oath or affirmation of office prescribed under the Second Schedule. Looking at the Second Schedule, the affirmation of oath is basically to be done by the Chief Justice and because of his many duties I was proposing that the Minister looks at the possibility of saying the Chief Justice or any other judge of the Supreme Court. The same goes for Schedule 4 of the Bill which is basically the second last page of this Bill. We are talking about the chairperson here. The chairperson is the one to take that oath. There is one other issue which I wanted to bring to the attention of the House and that is that the Bill is silent on the issue of the appointment of the representative of the Commission to other Boards. I am a member of the Kenya National Audit Office Commission and one of the representatives is the Public Service Commission (PSC) and until that Act is changed, there will be a representative from this body. There have been cases where we do not know whether it should be the secretary or the chairman who should represent the Board and it will be good to clarify that anybody with the permission of the Commission should be able to represent the Board. I also want to support the issues put forward by Dr. Eseli about staggering the appointments of the Commission for obvious reasons. Under Section 25(1) of the Bill on Annual Estimates, it reads as follows:-"
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