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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "He is the Mover. However, I wish to state that the reason why I am proposing this amendment is that if you look at the law, it provides a manner of appointing commissioners. What this “co-opt” does is that it provides an unlawful way of appointing commissioners. What ordinarily happens is that if they need expertise then they hire consultants but you do not co-opt commissioners. It is like the Police Commission that we have just dealt with now. You have seen, for us to bring the Inspector-General (IG) and his deputy we had to move an amendment to make them full members and not ex-officio members. However, when you give the Commission authority to go and co-opt members and it does not state how many members and how they are appointing them, you might actually appoint commissioners that are more than the Commission itself and they are full time commissioners. So, that is why I am saying the better way is to hire consultants but not to co-opt. In the practice of this country, there is no law where you co-opt."
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