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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) S.W. Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to appreciate the Report from the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and of course my interest is on the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and about the commissioners. I have seen the recommendation where the Committee got it right, to actually get the list resubmitted to Parliament based on the fresh list of already shortlisted candidates. It is important for the Chair and his Committee to know that already some of these positions have been advertised. I think the same day that this Report was tabled in this Parliament these positions were advertised. I would like to seek further clarification from the Chair on the way forward because the Kamunge Panel is still on. They might decide to recruit new candidates while we know that in that list that was tabled in Parliament and then rejected, there were candidates who had qualified but their names never saw the light of the day. Their names were never tabled in this House. So, I would still encourage the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs to actually find out where that process is and if it is still ongoing, to be paused for justice to be done to the candidates who had already been shortlisted. From the shortlisted candidates for the position of the Chair, we already have two names that were never tabled in this House. We have other names for the position of commissioners and currently you know TSC has so many challenges. With one commissioner, they are not able to move. There are so many decisions that need to be made by TSC but this cannot be done if we do not have commissioners. We only have one commissioner who the House approved and also the court said the process was fairly done. Let the Office of the President, and I hope this is through the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, bring the names to Parliament having considered gender, regional balance and merit."
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