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    "id": 927972,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. William Cheptumo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
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    "content": "The principal object of the Bill, therefore, is to amend the First Schedule to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Act, No.9 of 2011 in order to establish a selection panel to oversee the filling of vacant positions in the office of the chairperson and members of the Commission. I wish to inform the House and the country that the current First Schedule only applied to the recruitment of the current commissioners. You may recall that we had a select committee drawn from the Senate and the National Assembly which developed a mechanism through which we established and appointed the current commissioners. a Selection panel was established to do that business. I would like to refer Members to Section 6 of the Third Schedule of the IEBC Act. The selection panel that was put in place at that time - for purposes of clarity, allow me refer to the section. It provides for dissolution of the selection panel. The selection panel shall stand dissolved upon the requisite appointment being made under Paragraph 4. Now, Paragraph 4 talks about the appointment of the commissioners by the President. When the selection panel concluded its work, it recommended names to the President and commissioners were appointed and their names were approved by the House. That was the end. As we sit here today and as I address this House and the nation, we do not have a selection panel in terms of provisions of the First Schedule, Section 6 of the Act. Under this Bill, it is proposed that the selection panel comprises four persons nominated by the Parliamentary Service Commission and seven other persons nominated by the Public Service Commission, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC), the Attorney-General, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), and Interreligious Council of Kenya. It is expected that the eleven-member selection panel is representative of the cross section of Kenyan society and that it is of value, and that it will heavily discharge its core mandate of shortlisting suitable persons for appointment as commissioners by the President."
}