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"content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, I stand to support the deletion of this clause. We have to be careful on this one. You can see that we are a full House. This is the most important piece of legislation we are ever going to do for this country. We are doing this because of the events of 2007, where it was said that only one party did all the nominations of the commissioners to the defunct Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) and, therefore, managed the electoral process. If we do not go together on this one, we will be laying the ground for difficult elections. We do not want to have any doubt whatsoever. There should be no room for the possibility of conflict between the Commission and its secretariat. It is not useful to go that way. Mr. Chairman, Sir, where we said, for instance, that there is delimitation of roles of the President when he gives policy directions and the Permanent Secretary in the Office of the President doing--- Where does it say that the Speaker of the National Assembly will respect the delimitation between his role and that of the Clerk of the National Assembly? Why is it on this one? Why do we think it is so important to remind everybody of this one? The Act governing the operations of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) does not say that the JSC shall respect the Registrarâs role. The ultimate responsibility is that of the Commission, and the Commission must have that authority without any questions whatsoever. Therefore, I move that we delete this clause."
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