- The National Dialogue Committee will hold a plenary with the technical teams on Monday.
- Various stakeholders have been submitting their views on the five issues framed by the committee.
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The eight-member technical committee on National Dialogue will on Friday hold a session to harmonise key proposals as the window for public views ends.
The deadline for receiving proposals from various stakeholders closes on Friday evening.
The committee which is helping the National Dialogue panel constituted by Kenya Kwanza and Azimio, has been meeting separately over the last two weeks.
The team is expected to on Monday table a raft of proposals that have been harmonised after submissions from both camps.
They will also spend the weekend looking at various proposals from Kenyans who submitted their views during the public participation window.
Friday marks the deadline for the committee -through parliament's secretariat-receive public views on the five thematic areas that form the agenda for dialogue.
The Star understands that the technical panel is burning the midnight oil to harmonise the proposals from the two camps before meeting the 10-member National Dialogue Committee(NDC).
"We should be ready to submit a report on the harmonised proposals from Kenya Kwanza and Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition by Monday," said a member of the technical committee on condition of anonymity.
The team was to submit the report on Friday but that has been delayed awaiting the arrival of senior members of the NDC who are currently overseas for official duties.
National Assembly Majority leader Kimani Ichung'wah who is the head of the Kenya Kwanza delegation to the NDC and his minority counterpart Opiyo Wandayi-the Azimio deputy head of the delegation currently in the United States of America.
Members of the Azimio dialogue technical team include Jeremiah Kioni -Team Leader, Adams Oloo, Zein Abubakar and Isabel Githinji.
Kenya Kwanza settled on lawyers Muthomi Thiankolu, Linda Musumba, Nick Biketi and Duncan Ojwang’.
A section of MPs have already submitted to the committee a proposal to create 11 more counties.
Azimio is said to have submitted to its side of the technical committee some radical proposals.
One of them is seeking to allow political parties to pick commissioners for the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.
As part of its radical electoral reform proposals, Azimio wants the recruitment of the IEBC commissioners fashioned around the Inter-Party Parliamentary Group (IPPG) of 1997.
An opposition representative in the dialogue committee confirmed that one of their agenda under the electoral justice thematic area would be going for reforms reminiscent of the 1997 arrangement.
Another option that Azimio has tabled is to have the current selection panel for the IEBC commissioners reconstituted and allow a call for fresh applications.