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    "id": 1097810,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1097810/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "As we were discussing earlier today about the commissioners, the issue of regional balance seems to play emotionally. We will be looking at it even now. As much as we appreciate that the commissioners who have been appointed for IEBC and everywhere else come from different parts of Kenya and represent the face of Kenya, when they join a commission or a corporation, they do not agitate for regional interests. I want to disabuse this feeling because, perhaps, the emotions we get people feeling that they do not have one of their own is because there is an expectation that when you have one of your own there, he or she is going to agitate for your personal interest. Commissioners are there as individuals. Six hundred and sixty-nine people applied. None of them was sponsored by a tribe, none of them of them was sponsored by a village and none of them was sponsored by a grouping. They applied in their individual capacity. They went to school in individual capacity and were interviewed in their individual capacity. All the selection panel and the appointing authority have done is to ensure that the very best of them individually represent the face of Kenya. Collectively, when it comes to the Commission, we expect them to serve the great Republic of Kenya first. They must not start thinking about where they were nominated from, for example, from Mt. Kenya. That they must serve in the Commission, the interests of the Mt. Kenya Community. Or that one who was nominated from the Coast must serve the people of the Coast. We expect that all the commissioners, as they take their oath of office and as they serve, they will bear allegiance to the Republic of Kenya and not their regional interests."
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