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    "id": 776161,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I want to confirm to my friend, Hon. Otiende Amollo. You might be an astute lawyer out there but when we are here, we are all lawmakers. This is a unique Commission. I will give him five reasons why this Commission is unique. All commissions, under the Constitution have selection panels provided for in the Act. The process of recruiting commissioners is set up in specific selection panels. After they are selected, the names are submitted to the President and the President sends the names to this House. The respective committees do due diligence through vetting. They can as well reject the nominees of the President. In this case, the PSC is selected by political parties, with approval of this House. In fact, even when it comes to their discharge, Article 250 does not apply. It is for the same caucus to come back with reasons, write and bring a Motion for their removal. More fundamentally, when a Member of Parliament serves for five years, that is the end of his term. If re-elected, he is serving a fresh new term. It is different from other public and State officers. So, if you even look at the process of how we arrived at these names this afternoon, it is totally different from the way the JSC, TSC, PSC and SRC arrive at the names. The road map is different. It is like day and night. It is not President Uhuru Kenyatta who brought these nominees to this House, am I right? The Hon. Speaker did not read a message from the Executive. So, it is good that Hon. Otiende has raised it. He is within his right, and you have answered. We need to move and deal with this matter. This is a matter that the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs can bring a petition on next time. One thing he needs to go home with is that as much as we agree with you, the question you need to answer is how these names arrive in this House, and how the Motion was crafted. This is different from how the JSC arrives at names. Right now, as we sit here, the Departmental Committee of Justice and Legal Affairs is dealing with three nominees who have been appointed to the JSC. Yesterday, they were being vetted. The President has the powers to appoint. The question I want to ask you, Hon. Otiende Amollo, which I think is a legal food for thought, you need to go home with it: What about JSC? The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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