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    "id": 1122441,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1122441/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1565,
        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
        "slug": "george-peter-opondo-kaluma"
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    "content": "Commission. It is legitimate. If we continue that way, we will have the youth clamouring for a commission independent of Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and Equality Commission. You remember a short while ago when we were debating the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Bill, there was a proposal that independent of Article 59 (4), we have a youth commission created. The danger we are running into is that we will have a youth commission, a national gender and equality commission, a persons with disabilities commission, a commission dealing with minorities and marginalised groups, a separate commission dealing with older persons, among other commissions. If you approach it that way, then you will have a situation where while we are talking of too much expenditure, we are creating bodies all over. Remember, these commissions must have a minimum of three commissioners and a maximum of nine. So, we will have a situation where several commissions will be doing the same thing for different sections of our society but they are all taking funding. That, to me, is a critical point. That is why we are saying let us have Kenya National Human Rights and Equality Commission, as contemplated in the Constitution, properly established that way. Within that Kenya National Human Rights and Equality Commission, we can have a department headed by a director or so in charge of persons with disabilities. We can have a directorate within the commission in charge of youth matters. We can have a directorate concerned with gender issues, which is now misinterpreted to mean just women issues. We can have a department…"
}