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    "id": 477927,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, what the Chairman has said is exactly what I said. I am aware that this Act still continues even after the promulgation of the Constitution in 2010; this Act was passed in 2008 and that is why I am quoting from it. However, my concern is this: Even if the terms of the commissioners lapsed and they are no longer in office, we need to make appointments to the Commission following the provisions of the Act. The Chairman has not clearly pointed out to me under which section of this Act this recruitment, or appointment, is being made. I would have loved to see in the deliberations of the Committee what they agreed on as the section guiding the filling of these positions. I said that a precedent has been set in this House. In the Tenth Parliament I remember there was a time when we set a time limit for the President to put out advertisements. That time period lapsed and so we had to come back to the House to amend the law to allow the President o put out the advertisements in the Kenya Gazette. That is exactly what the Committee should have recommended instead of going ahead with interviews of people and then recommending names to this House for approval under no law, in my view. There is no section, really, that the Committee is citing to guide this fresh attempt to fill position in the commission."
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