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    "id": 477930,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "Section 18 provides for the procedure of filling these positions. That is what guided the Committee in deliberating and resolving all the outstanding issues that were there. What we are expected to do is clearly enumerated in our Report. The Clerk of the National Assembly was supposed to originate an advertisement in three public dailies with wide national circulation, which he did. This is a requirement of Section 18 of the Act. Once that was done, the provisions of the Standing Orders then kicked in. We had seven days within which to interview and recommend nominees to the Assembly. The Assembly has 10n days within which to approve the recommendation to be forwarded to the President. So, that is the process that is set out in the Act and that we followed. These are provisions that are in the Act, and that have not been suspended. They are still binding on every Member of this House, including hon. Mbadi himself; if he thinks that he needs to bring any amendment, he is welcome to do so. Perhaps, for the information of the House, there is an amendment that is being done to the law. We expect that to be forwarded to the Committee. We have seen a draft. This law was reviewed in 2012 after it was promulgated in 2008. So, this law has already been reviewed even after the passage of the new Constitution in August, 2010. Thank you."
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