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    "id": 927978,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/927978/?format=api",
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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": "Clause 2(b) of the Bill seeks to delete paragraph 2 of the First Schedule and provide for the new selection panel of 11 members to comprise – and members should listen to this because this is now the composition of the selection as proposed in this amendment– four persons being two men and two women nominated by the Parliamentary Service Commission. Hon. Speaker, this is the Commission that you chair. There will be one person nominated by the Public Service Commission. That Commission’s mandate as we are all aware will service the interests of the public service in our country. We will give them a chance to nominate one person. One person will be nominated by the EACC and one person by the LSK. Unfortunately, this afternoon, the society received some bit of criticism from the Leader of the Majority Party. I was tempted to raise a point of order but listening to him, he had a legal point. Even to envisage a situation where the Speaker will sit in a mediation team was far-fetched. I believe they will not let us down when they have a chance to give us one person to serve in the selection panel. Noting the role of the LSK in matters of law, it can give us a very useful contribution on that. One person will be nominated by the National Gender and Equality Commission that deals with matters of gender. It is going to help us have one person. One person will be nominated by the Attorney-General. There is already an amendment to that, and I will move it later. Then there will be one person nominated by the KNCHR and one person will be nominated by the Interreligious Council of Kenya. We felt later that we needed to increase that from one to two having reduced the 11 they had. I will move an amendment on that later."
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