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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gichigi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kamunye Gichigi",
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    "content": "on IEBC is just another Mungiki, Chinkororo or Al-Shabaab. I support this Bill because it has certain good provisions. When it gives the period within which disputes on nominations ought to be dealt with as 40 days by the parties--- Some of us suffered during the last elections because after the nominations the issues were not very clear. The time was so limited that there was no time for the tribunals to sit, hear and determine these disputes. So, I am going to support the provisions on early nominations. I will also support the provisions that require the parties to resolve those nomination disputes long before the elections happen. I oppose the issue of the parties submitting nomination rules to the IEBC three months before the elections. I support the suggestion by Hon. Katoo that it is high time we thought of coming up with nomination lists after the elections. The idea of nominations is to look at the people who have been elected, find out where the gaps are and then fill those gaps. If you come up with a nomination list before the elections, everybody is normally very busy and only a few people have an idea of what is happening when it comes to preparation of those lists. After the elections, you might find that the people who are in those lists are not the ones that are suitable to fill in the gaps that rise out of the elections. We need to amend the proposed provisions here and come up with nominations after the elections. Education of Members of Parliament (MPs) is a constitutional requirement which the Tenth Parliament failed to abide by. As we think about it, it is important that we consider the education of MPs and their trainings after they join Parliament. Even as we think of the levels of education for the candidates, let us also think about the requirements. We have been mandated by the Constitution to oversee, represent as well as make laws. When we come to Parliament, the induction that is given for a day like the one we had at Safari Park Hotel is not proper training for MPs. I suggest that for the first about three months Parliament must take new MPs through some training. We have no business coming to pretend to be making any laws here. We ought to be taken through thorough training. So, if you asked somebody here: “What is the curriculum of oversight or what is oversight?” They will start googling because nobody took us through that issue. So, I challenge the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), because they are the ones who are going to be here after Parliament is dissolved to take care of the MPs. Let us not just think about their education before they come to Parliament. Come up with a syllabus. We have the Centre for Parliamentary Studies and Training Institute (CPST) at Karen. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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