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    "id": 643479,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "It is a requirement in law that once the Board concludes all their matters they must prepare a report which they must bring to this House for consideration. So, to allow them to prepare that report they need, at least, three months which we agreed as a Committee to grant. So, we are seeking that this House agrees with the Committee. It is a requirement in law that the Board must archive all the works that they have done. All the investigations they have carried out, the decisions they have made, the reviews they have conducted must be archived for future generations and for purposes of people knowing what the Board did during their time. So, to allow them to conduct that process, it is important that we grant them the three months that they have requested. It is just a minor amendment that is being sought that is contained under Section 23 of the principal Act which reads as follows: “Where the time prescribed in this section lapses, when the board has commenced the hearing of a matter but it has not made a determination under Section 21, the time shall be deemed to have been extended until such time is made and shall not exceed three months from the 31st December, 2015.” Hon. Speaker, the three months shall lapse on 31st March. So, if we do not add them the three months, they will not be able to make a final determination on the reviews that are pending before them which are 29 of them. The other thing that is important to this House that they need to know is that the extension shall not occasion any additional expenditure from the Exchequer. They have sufficient money to conduct all that work that they have proposed for the three months if this House considers appropriate to grant."
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