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    "id": 685855,
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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": "The Committee is expected to report back to the House within two weeks on the following Bills that have already gone through the First Reading. They are:- (i) The Witness Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2016; (ii) The Penal Code (Amendment) Bill, 2016; (iii) The Public Benefits Organisations (Amendment) Bill, 2016; (iv) The Contempt of Court Bill, 2016; (v) The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2016; and, (vi) The Office of the County Attorney Bill, 2014. This is a Senate Bill and we will be tabling the Report in due course. The legislative proposals that are pending in the Committee are as follows:- (i) The Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2016 by Hon. Malulu Injendi; (ii) The Public Participation Bill, 2016 by Hon. Chris Omulele; (iii)The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2016 by Hon. Abdikadir O. Ahmed which we passed last year; and, (iv) The National Coroners Service Bill which we concluded yesterday. We will be forwarding the Report to the Speaker for approval. The Committee is also processing the following report proposals:- (i) The Adjudicator Act (Amendment) Bill, 2016 by Hon. Irungu Kang’ata; (ii) The Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2016 by Hon. Ababu Namwamba which we have completed. We will be forwarding the Report to the Speaker for approval so that the Bill can be published. (iii)The Traditional Courts Bill by Hon. Abdikadir O. Ahmed. He has already appeared before us. We have approved the Bill and we will forward the Report to the Speaker so that he can approve it for publication. (iv) The Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2016 by Hon. Alice Wahome. We have also concluded that and the Report is on its way to the Speaker. (v) The Law of Succession (Amendment) Bill by Hon. Francis Njenga is still under consideration by the Committee. Finally, the petitions that are pending before the Committee are as follows: We have the Petition by Hon. Chris Omulele on the Maseno Boundary Dispute. We have already conducted an inquiry into this complaint. We have held the first meeting and we intend to conduct another meeting for purposes of arriving at an amicable solution to this problem. We will be tabling our Report in due course. The second Petition if by the Luseno family on the alleged murder of Gladys Ritho. We have requested for information from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) as well as the Attorney-General and we are awaiting information from these two entities. The other Petition that is pending before the Committee that we are considering, and we hope to report next week is on the removal of the Chairperson of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). This is on-going. Finally, the Committee considered a Petition by Johnson Kobia and we found out that the Petition substantially contains issues that are under determination in a criminal court in Meru."
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