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    "id": 1105443,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1105443/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Otiende Amollo",
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    "content": "Lastly, I have heard many people complain about some of the constitutional commissions and independent offices. It is true they have varying levels of success. I was there and so it is not for me to judge. But, the truth is that we should introspect as a House because for all these bodies, persons who go to them pass through this House. We debate who is to be chair and who is to be a commissioner and who is to hold what independent office. But, the tragedy is that most times when the debate comes, we do not debate objectively. We either debate from the prism of the party or the prism of tribe or the prism of gender or prism of a profession and, therefore, we stifle getting the best of what we can. We must be prepared to live with the fact that we can only do as well as we do here. If they are not working properly, we need to re-examine how we appoint them through this House. I believe that most of these offices are very important in a properly working democracy and if there are presided over by the right people. However, until we agree to get the right people, then we must take some share of the blame."
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