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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "The Independent Offices Appointment Act is very important to this House. This Bill proposes to amend that Act in order to provide for the appointment of the next senior most person within the office to perform the function of the office holder in the event a vacancy arises. This will kill the culture where when a vacancy arises a junior person is brought from somewhere and given that job. This amendment is stating that the second person in line must be given that job on a timeframe that the Bill is specifying. That time of 60 days can only be extended by the National Assembly. Therefore, you cannot have a person in acting position for two years. A good example is the CEO of the CDF Board. Unfortunately, he has been acting for the last three-and-a-half years. This is what this law is proposing to rectify. I do not know why somebody should be in an acting position for two or three years. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is an amendment being proposed to the Political Parties Act, 2011. It mainly creates a provision for the appointment of the Registrar of Political Parties and an assistant. The current provision is based on holding of the first general election under the new Constitution. That has been done already, but up to now we do not have a substantive Registrar of Political Parties and a deputy. With regard to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2011, this Bill seeks to amend that Act in order to empower the Commission to co-operate with foreign governments and international or regional organizations in the performance of their functions. This amendment is giving the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) more powers to directly deal with foreign governments in their pursuit of documents and evidence. It also proposes a provision to give the National Assembly power to play a role in the procedure of the removal of the CEO. This is because it is the same House that approves the appointment of the CEO. Then there is the Public Appointments (Parliamentary) Approval Act, 2011. This was sponsored by hon. Mungatana. Those of us who served in the Appointments Committee when we were vetting the Cabinet Secretaries, must have realized that the timeframe of 14 days sometimes becomes--- The period prescribed for any action is not adequate. We felt that it is only in exceptional cases, and only once, in a parliamentary session can that be varied. If, for example, the Committee’s report is not ready, it has vetted and it needs to do more due diligence--- If they feel they need more time then this proposed amendment allows Parliament to vary the timeframe once in a session. Of course, there are proposed amendments to the Land Registration Act. There is a Public Finance Management Act which I have said is touched on by oversight; it should not be here. There is something on leadership and Integrity Act, 2011. The Bill proposes to amend the Leadership and Integrity Act to include the Attorney-General as a Cabinet Secretary for the purposes of this Act. It imposes a new requirement on wealth declaration by all persons wishing to be appointed to State offices."
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