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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, pursuant to Section 11 of the National Gender and Equality Commission Act, 2011, this House approves the Report of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare on the Nomination of the Chairperson and Member of the National Gender and Equality Commission laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 8th November, 2011. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I move this Motion after our Committee deliberated on the requirements of the Act aforementioned. I wish to thank the Members of our Committee for their participation. These hon. Members are: hon. Elijah Lagat, hon. Joseph Oyugi Magwanga, hon. Alfred Odhiambo, hon. Gideon Konchella, hon. Jackson Kiptanui, hon. Polyns Ochieng, hon. Charles Keter and I. The issues that we deliberated on were as laid down in the Standing Orders for the establishment of the Labour and Social Welfare Committee, which I am the Vice- Chairman. Our Chairman is out of the country. This is a constitutional requirement and so, we could not wait for him to come back. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, our terms of reference were to vet the recommendation of Ms. Winfred Osibo Lichuma who had been nominated by the two Principals to chair the Gender and Equality Commission. We were also to vet Mr. Simon John Ndubai who was also nominated to be a member of the Gender and Equality Commission. We received letters from several people, namely, from the civil society and from Kenyans at large. These letters came from nine applicants who felt that they needed to make presentations to the Committee and mainly opposing the nomination of Madam Lichuma. However, we decided to put them on HANSARD and listen to them. Their main concerns were basically two. One, that Madam Lichuma did not support the ideology of having a Gender and Equality Commission. We interrogated this and the Committee was unanimous that this does not hold water because even those who did not support the Constitution, we did lock them out now that the Constitution was passed. The second concern was the nomination of the fourth ranked candidate from the interviewing panel. We took this matter very seriously and we opted to call all the nominees from number one up to number four. I would like to bring to the attention of this House that the letter that this House received from the Head of the Civil Service communicating the decision of the Principals on the nomination of Madam Lichuma indicated that they had considered several issues. The main issues considered were regional balance and ethnicity. For this reason, we decided as a Committee to interrogate the ethnicity of each of the members who were interviewed having noted that all the six members who were interviewed seemed to qualify, but their ranking, as per the interviewing panel, was such that there was number one, two, three up to number six. For some reasons, the person nominated was ranked by the interviewing panel as number four. So, the Committee had to come up with a criteria to understand why numbers one, two and three were dropped and why number four was nominated instead of the first three. The issues that came up, we decided to put them on the HANSARD, just in case we needed to revisit them. The letter from---"
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