AWARE THAT, the National Dialogue Committee was established by Parliament through a Resol…

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AWARE THAT, the National Dialogue Committee was established by Parliament through a Resolution passed by the National Assembly and Senate on 16th August 2023 and 29th August 2023 respectively; FURTHER AWARE that, the Resolution outlines the mandate of the Committee which includes to facilitate dialogue, consensus building and recommend appropriate constitutional, legal, and policy reforms on issues of concern to the people of Kenya; ACKNOWLEDGING THAT, since its establishment, the Committee has made tremendous progress in exercise of its mandate and has achieved the following milestones: formulated and adopted the framework agreement; framed and adopted the statement of Issues; unbundled the issues and agreed on prioritization of Issues; harmonized the unbundled issues; conducted public participation and stakeholder engagements in line with the requirements of Article 10 of the Constitution; and examined and analyzed the memoranda that were received from the public and stakeholder submissions; FURTHER COGNIZANT that, the Committee is presently in the process of considering the issues for negotiations and recommending appropriate constitutional, legal and policy reforms on each of the framed issues which are electoral justice and related matters: outstanding constitutional matters: fidelity to political parties/coalitions and the law on multiparty democracy: entrenching the National Government Constituencies Development Fund, National Government Affirmative Action Fund, and the Senate Oversight Fund into the Constitution and Establishment and Entrenchment of State Offices; CONSCIOUS that, the Resolution as made by both Houses of Parliament required the Committee to report to the Leadership of Kenya Kwanza and Azimio Coalitions within sixty (60) days, from 29th August 2023; RECOGNIZING the need for the Committee to conclude the consideration of the issues for negotiations, the process of making the appropriate constitutional, legal and policy reforms on each of the issues as framed by the Committee and preparation of a Report for submission to the Leadership of Kenya Kwanza and Azimio Coalitions and thereafter, to Parliament; NOW THEREFORE, the Houses of Parliament RESOLVE to extend the mandate of the National Dialogue Committee by a further thirty (30) days from 28th October 2023 consequent to which, the Committee shall report to the Leadership of Kenya Kwanza and Azimio Coalitions, on or before 26th November 2023 and thereafter submit its Report to Parliament.