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    "id": 10142,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shitanda",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Housing",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Soita Shitanda",
        "slug": "soita-shitanda"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to support the Report with the amendment that has been proposed by Mr. Midiwo. In seconding this amendment we have heard the Chairman of the Committee enumerate a series of processes that they went through before they arrived at this decision that this name should be rejected. Looking at the whole process in totality, I want to think that the proposal to refer the name of Lichuma back to the Principals who actually complied with Article 232 of the Constitution in proposing this name--- The Committee has enumerated a series of challenges that they encountered in the process of looking into these nominations. In fact, one of the challenges they have listed is about lack of proper guidelines in terms of how to deal with it. They had challenges on how to deal with ethnicity, regional and county balancing issues. This is where the name of Lichuma aptly comes in as the properly nominated person for this slot. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we are talking of county balancing the region of Western Province has counties. Examples are; Busia has Agnes Odhiambo who was nominated the other day; Bungoma County has the Deputy Chief Justice Nancy Baraza; the number three they are talking about is a Luhya from Busia. I have just said Busia has already taken a slot. We are not rejecting her. We are saying that the President and Prime Minister were addressing themselves to county balancing also. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you look at the arguments being advanced by the committee and the contributions by my brother Mr. Keter about distribution of these slots, I think when this Constitution was being written in more ways than one, it made this provision because it was trying to address a problem that was there where leaders were openly practising tribalism. This is how this issue of regionalism came. This is how issues of vetting came in. I want to think that by taking the vetting exercise that these candidates were going through---"
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