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    "id": 1060784,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Likoni, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Mishi Mboko",
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        "legal_name": "Mishi Juma Khamisi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This is just a continuation from where I was in seconding the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill. I just want to wrap up with the reason we are doing amendments in this Bill. The main aim is to ensure we have well-qualified Members who are going to be nominated especially after the results of general elections. In most scenarios, you see resourceful and stronger members losing during a general election. When you do the nominations, after the results, this should be the right moment where you are going to know strong members who are resourceful and who can be considered through nomination. If you want to have well qualified Members through nomination, we need to do it after the election because this is the time when the temperatures of the elections are down. We can have a sober process where we will have qualified people who are going to represent the balance in terms of affirmative groups. In the Constitution, there is what we call representation of the people, where we need to ensure that we have women in leadership, youths, people with disability and representation of the minority. If you do it before the elections, you might not balance all the affirmative groups, but if you do it afterwards, you will make correct decisions. We also need to understand that we need a regional balance in terms of leadership positions. After the results, you will also know which area /region in our country lacks some representation in terms of women, people with disability and the youths. So, if we do it afterwards, we will know from where we will nominate to ensure that we, at least, have regional balance. If you do nominations after the elections, you will ensure that the people who are going to be nominated are qualified, have worked hard and have been loyal to the party for the whole period and even after. So, I do not want to talk much because the Mover of this Bill, Hon. Florence, has given a lot of reasons why we are having this kind of amendment. I also added a lot in regard to this. I also want to urge the Members that this will not affect the issue of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). Even in the BBI, there is what we call top list. The top list is moreover the same as nomination of Members after elections. So, this will not interfere with what is being talked about in the BBI."
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