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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I thank the Joint Committee for doing a good job in such a short time. This matter has been pending for a long time. We should have had this election in June this year. We have been holding back the other states of the EAC. We are happy that our brothers from NASA have joined us by submitting the names as required. The problem then was that there was difficulty in submitting the names as per the Regulations and Rules of the Community. The Joint Committee has recommended the nomination of the persons listed on pages 27, 28 and 29. There are 14 Members from Jubilee Party and 11 Members from the NASA coalition. This will be a running list where you choose five from the first ballot paper as the Senate Majority Leader has said. You will then choose four from the second ballot paper, which will be from the NASA Coalition. I know that the rules were different in the last elections held in 2012. Then, the candidates were put in various clusters where you could only pick on one person from each cluster. There were nine clusters. I hope that when Members will be choosing from this list, they will make sure that there is equity and distribution across the regions and counties. It is not only any five or any four but it is a reflection of the face of Kenya so that when we send our people to EALA, we will have Kenyans who represent the full face of Kenya in all shades, gender and regional balance included. With those few remarks, I support the Report of the Committee."
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