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    "id": 739242,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir.I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, the Senate adopts the Report of the Joint Parliamentary Select Committee on the election of Members to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) laid on the Table of the House on Thursday, 25thMay, 2017. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as the Hon. Senators are aware, the Joint Parliamentary Select Committee on the election of Members to EALA has been sitting for the last couple of days, if not weeks. The current term of EALA expires on 4th June, 2017, that is, next week on Sunday. According to the East African Community (EAC) Treaty of 1993, the successive EALA is supposed to be in place before the expiry of the current Parliament. It is for that reason that the process of electing new Members to EALA has been taking place during the month of April and the better part of May. It started with the formation of the Committee of both Houses of Parliament; the National Assembly and the Senate. We have had very successful deliberations in that Committee. Prior to that, there have been nominations from the various political parties which were determined as follows:- 1) The Jubilee Coalition, being the majority party, nominates five out of the nine representatives from our country."
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