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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2018. What is targeted here is Sections 7 and 9. As it stands today, there is no direct and express indication on how to declare these vacancies open for competition. After a commissioner has been appointed and stays in office, he or she will quietly walk out and that position becomes vacant. Therefore, there is no urgency in the law that requires the Commission to trigger the appointment of that individual. Therefore, this is the essence of this Bill that is before this House. First of all, it is the declaration of a vacancy in the SRC. What appears in the general law is only the vacancy of commissioners, but it does not expressly say so in the SRC Act. Therefore, it is important that we spell out quite clearly what is required to establish that when these vacancies arise, they should be gazetted that there is a vacancy arising out of a particular position. Besides that, they should also provide the timelines for filling that vacancy. That is why I said that it is a straightforward amendment. When we say that we want to fill these positions, we want to look at the Constitution afresh. There are areas that we now see a lacuna in this Constitution. When we promulgated the Constitution in 2010, there were prevailing circumstances that were The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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