William Kipkiror

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• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: four vacancies that arose. That background is very critical so that Members can understand the essence of the Bill. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: 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 ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: If you look at the current law, all the selection panel members were coming from religious organisations. There is a complete departure now arising from the amendment. We have given two slots to the religious organisations as opposed to the current situation where all the members of the selection panel are from the religious organisations. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Article 118(1), as members are aware, requires that we subject all our laws to public participation. This Bill equally went before the Kenyan people and an advertisement was made. We received comments and views both oral and written from various agencies and persons. I do not want to go to details but the recommendations of this Bill in terms of the decision of the Committee were informed by particular public participation. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Section 2(a) seeks to amend paragraph (1) of the First Schedule to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Act of 2011 by increasing the number of persons to be appointed to the selection panel for the recruitment of the commissioners from the current nine to 11. Currently, the law talks about nine members for the panel. We are proposing in this law to increase it from nine to 11. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: We are of the considered opinion that increasing the number of persons appointed to the selection panel will give Parliament and indeed President more opportunities to nominate and appoint selection panel members who represent the various ethnic, religious and professional diversities. We felt that the current selection panel members are from one sector of our society - that is the religious groups only. All the nine currently are from religious groups. We felt this is 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. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: not wide in terms of representation. That is why we widened it to bring in some constitutional commissions which have legal mandate to deal with matters in our country. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: 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. ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: The IEBC, while supporting the amendment when they appeared before my Committee, felt that the allocation of only one slot to the religious sector may make the sector feel under- represented and we agreed. We will be requesting for two slots from that group to be members of the panel and reduce one from the institutions there. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: The Committee observed, therefore, that the selection panel for the first appointment of commissioners upon commencement of Section 5 of the IEBC Act of 2011 consists of the following… I have said before that all these members currently serving and those who left are from the religious groups. It is important for Members to appreciate that four persons, two men and two women will be nominated by the Parliamentary Service Commission. In the current panel, at least the Parliamentary Service Commission was allowed to nominate four. We retained that particular position in our amendment. There will be one person nominated ... view