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    "id": 52038,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kiptanui",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 52,
        "legal_name": "Jackson Kiplagat Kiptanui",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I really wonder why the drafters of this Bill thought about the staggering of the appointments. In my own opinion, if we have four Commissioners today and then we have others after 12 months, then we are contradicting ourselves in this Bill. That is because if you look at Section 7(5), it states:- “Four members of the Commission shall be appointed not more than twelve months from the first appointment under subsection (4)”. If you turn to page 173 on the provisions relating to delimitations of boundaries, it says that the Commission shall resolve all the issues within a period of five months of the date of its appointment. That means if you have four Commissioners within five months, they will have cleared all the issues arising from the Ligale Report. What will the other Commissioners be doing if, indeed, the first four will have completed the work of Ligale? My question, Mr. Minister, is this: If, indeed, we are staggering for 12 months, which region, if we are talking about regional balancing, will be waiting for its Commissioner to be appointed after six months or 12 months? Unless we have volunteers here who will say our region will wait for 12 months--- The first Commissioner should come from my region. That is my view. So, let us have all the Commissioners appointed at the same time."
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