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    "id": 1122446,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "56. You have older members of society under Article 57. People have been asking why we have people like Dr. Oburu Odinga in EALA and not a youth. They do not know that, that is also a special category protected by the Constitution. The point I was making is that the way to approach it better is to have Kenya National Human Rights and Equality Commission as rightly established under the Constitution and then you have departments under the commission dealing with these specialised sections of the society. If you do not, calling it the National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC) and then saying in the definition of the Act that the youth, persons with disabilities, marginalised groups and minorities are included, does not give that picture. No doubt, Hon. Ong’era and Hon. Members, you will see a National Gender and Equality Commission more focused on gender issues than those other issues. Hon. Janet, that was the explanation I was giving – that, even in the most recent clamour for constitutional change, you saw the youth saying that they needed a commission. Persons living with disabilities are dissatisfied with the National Gender and Equality Commission discharging their mandate and need their own commission. Older persons and children will soon request for their own commissions. In the long run, based on this constitutional architecture, we will have up to five commissions just dealing with human rights issues specific to those sections of the society. That is why we are saying in order to have good order, let us have the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and Equality with those departments, so that we reduce the governance expenses. Hon. Members, you see how much we spend on those commissions yet we do not see any reports coming to Parliament. We do not see any meaningful contributions made to those sectors."
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