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    "id": 769991,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to join my colleagues in supporting this Motion and urge the House to adopt the report. Being the largest economy in East Africa, and having some of our members of the EAC being our number one trading partners, for example, Uganda, we have a lot to benefit from this kind of a Community. We need to be serious when we deal with the legislative part of the EAC. However, I would like to, maybe from memory, remind Members that actually in the last Parliament, this list was brought. However, Parliament could not proceed because one side of the House decided not to follow Rule No. 6 by bringing exactly four members instead of the required 12. That is why the last Parliament rejected the nomination list and it had to be returned back to the parties to bring the list as per the requirements of Rule No.6. So, the blame should not just be lumped on all Kenyans and Members of the last Parliament that we failed to pass the list. It was actually one party, specifically, one side of the House which by then did not give the right number for the House to select from. However, for now, I can see there is compliance on that part. I would like to commend the Joint Committee for having gone through the nomination list within the short time, and also for the parties. We are told that there were 208 applicants. This list went to the parties which actually selected the nominees who we are supposed to vote on. That is why we need to stress that the parties should take into account diversity in terms of regions, skills, gender, and age so that when they present this list to us, we have that diversity to choose from. Otherwise, if we are limited by the parties when they select more people from one region, we will be constrained and we have to vote within the list they have given us. I thank the Joint Committee for being thorough and making sure that when they disqualify someone, it is done according to the law. They had to write to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and the Registrar of Political Parties to confirm before they could disqualify somebody. We do not want to go into the situation which was alluded to by the Senator for Nyamira County that we had to go through a lot of litigations when the list was not submitted according to the law last time. I hope this time round, we have taken care of that. Come 14th December, 2017 we will have these elections through and our Members will attend the EALA. I urge fellow Senator that when we will be electing, we have to take into account that these are people who are going to represent our country in the EALA. They will be our face. We have to select people whom we can trust to represent us outside this country. That is why we have to look beyond the party issues. We have to look at who is The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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