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    "id": 10151,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this amendment. One, if we allow committees to do regional balancing in public appointments, we will not get it right because each departmental committee only deals with a few selected cases of vetting. The Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC) has requested the two Principals to give us the names of the people who have been appointed to public bodies, indicating the regions they come from, since the promulgation of the new Constitution. From that information, we will know which regions have benefitted more than the other regions. In the absence of that information, we should leave it to the two Principals because they are the ones with the appointing authority. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the reason as to why the people of Kenya, through this House, gave the appointing authority to the two Principals is that it is assumed that they will exercise fairness in the appointments. The two Principals have tried to exercise fairness in this regard by asking this House to consider candidate number four, who was not very far from the other two candidates, and recommended---"
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