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    "id": 1074271,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, allow me to briefly comment on the work of this Committee that is ably chaired by Sen. Shiyonga, whom I am very proud of. I am pleased with how she has taken up the role of a Committee Chairperson ably. She is the first female Senator to chair a Committee in this House. I am proud of what she has been able to do as a Committee Chairperson; not because she is female but because she has the ability. Sen Shiyonga is a Member of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare which I chair and from where she says that she learnt a lot about the chairing of a committee. The Committee on National Cohesion, Equal Opportunity and Regional Integration is extremely important. Sen. (Dr.) Zani was a Member of this Joint Committee in the last Parliament which I chaired in the National Assembly from 2013 to 2017. It is not by accident that this Committee got its name. We cannot have cohesion in this country if we do not equalize opportunities for all no matter the tribe, age, gender or disability status. I wish that this Committee remains a Joint Committee of the Senate and National Assembly. There are many interventions that need to be made which will naturally come from the National Assembly and vice versa. I hope that the Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity of the National Assembly that is chaired by hon. Maina Kamanda and the Committee on National Cohesion, Equal Opportunity and Regional Integration of the Senate which is chaired by Sen. Shiyonga are of the same mind on these issues. I urge Sen. Shiyonga to remember one important aspect that talks about equalization of opportunities. In 2015, when we amended the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, 2015, we put in a very specific provision in that Act about the preferences and reservations for women, youth and persons with disabilities. The 30 per cent procurement opportunities for the special interest groups is expressly provided for in that Act. That is the only Act that is so specific. The Act says that every six months, the Committee of"
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