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    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "More importantly, again, that may not be achieved here because of the timelines we have put in the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act, which is the reason the Committee has recommended that, that needs to be removed alongside the words, “if the House does not, they shall be deemed to have been appointed’. All that is contained in the Report. But you got it right because those are some of the concerns that the Committee has raised in its Report. All these Committees have had this kind of problem – that, you must give the public sufficient time but after that the timelines become too tight and it becomes very difficult to invite people you might have wanted to invite to come and speak about a nominee even in your own Motion. If we can extend the period to two or three months, Members will have sufficient time to express themselves. Those are the concerns captured in the earlier Report you referred to. Again, I am drawing your attention to the fact that there are three others. Let me hear what the ‘Father of the House’ has to say in two minutes."
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