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    "id": 696702,
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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 second one is the amendment of the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development Act of 2013. This is to provide for resignation of the chairperson. The law did not provide for resignation. It just provided for amendment. It meant that the chairperson could not resign under any circumstances, but now we are seeking to amend this Act to ensure that the chairperson is given an opportunity to resign if he so wishes, so that like in other legislations, somebody is not forced to serve when they do not want. The Bill seeks to amend the Kenya Law Reform Commission Act of 2013 to realign it to the devolution structure. At the moment, they are providing services to the devolved governments, but the devolved governments are not involved in the appointment of the members of the Board of the KKRC. We have amendments. We have looked at this Bill as the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and we will be proposing amendments to the amendment that has been proposed by the KLRC. We met the KLRC commissioners and we discussed this, but we have our own reservations. The Bill proposes to give power to the Cabinet Secretary (CS) responsible for Justice who we know at the moment is the Attorney- General, to nominate or appoint two persons of the opposite gender to the board. We also note that in the sub-clause, the Attorney- General is also given power to nominate other two persons. Therefore, he will be nominating about four persons. That is very unfair. So, we will be making amendments to realign this to fairness and reasonableness. We will be proposing an amendment to give power to the CS for the time being, responsible for Justice, who is the Attorney- General, to nominate two persons and not four. Otherwise, he will stuff all his nominees into this board. He will have an unfair advantage over all the others. We agree with the other appointments by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), and one person to be nominated as a judge of the Court of Appeal. We are not sure about that. We will also be proposing an amendment on it. We do not want a judge of the Court of Appeal to sit in a board like this. They should send a representative from the Judicial Service Commission. It cannot be a judge of the Court of Appeal going to sit in a board to discuss matters of drafting of legislations. We will be proposing an amendment to that."
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