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    "id": 748644,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, there was an invitation for applications to be elected to the EALA, pursuant to Rule 4 of EALA rules. That advertisement was carried in the Daily Nation, TheStandard and also in the Kenya Gazette of 27th April 2017. The rules and the qualifications required were put in the advert. The presiding officers, in this case, are the two Clerks of the two Houses, while the Speakers of the two Houses are the returning officers. So, the presiding officers invited qualified persons to apply to be nominated for election as Members of EALA. A copy of the advertisement is attached as Annex III to theReport which is before this House. Article 99 of our Constitution sets out the qualification and disqualification for election as a Member of Parliament. For you to qualify to be elected as a Member of EALA, you should also be qualified in accordance with the rules of a partner State. So, you must also be qualified to be a Member of the parliament of Kenya. At the close of the application period, the presiding officers had received at total of 99 applications. Out of that, 58 persons were seeking nomination through the Jubilee Coalition while 41 persons were seeking nomination through the CORD coalition. On 5th May 2017, the presiding officers forwarded the schedule of the applicants to the respective party leaders for action. Those letters to the partly leaders are also attached as Annex IV of this Report. The party leaders were requested to submit the names of nominees for election by the preceding officers. This was done on 11th May 2017, which was to be the nomination day. As there was room for people to apply as independent candidates, they were similarly requested to submit their applications to the presiding officers on the nomination day, which was 11th May2017. There was a pre-nomination briefing pursuant to Rule 7 of the EALA Rules. It was done on 10th May 2017 by the presiding officers together with four other parliamentary party leaders. It was actually to be done by the parliamentary party leaders serving in the two Houses. They were updated on the requirements under the Treaty on Nomination of Candidates for EALA. On the nomination day, the presiding officers received nominations papers from parliamentary party leaders and the independent candidates. On 16th May, 2017, pursuant to Rule (13) (1), the presiding officers presented the Report on the nomination papers to the Joint Committee. TheReport of the presiding officers is attached as Annex Von this Report. The presiding officers informed the Committee that out of the 40 candidates who appeared before them, 35 were cleared and issued with provisional nomination certificates. Out of the 35 who were cleared, 20 were affiliated to political parties and 15 were independent candidates. Further, the Committee was informed that close to the nomination exercise - that is on Thursday 11th May 2017 - they had written to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to ascertain whether all the provisionally nominated candidates were registered voters as required under Article 99(1) of our Constitution. Secondly, they also wrote to the Registrar of Political Parties to ascertain the status of party membership of the independent candidates as at the day of nominations."
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