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    "id": 1122455,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeniffer Shamala",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the Bill 100 per cent. I congratulate the Committee for coming up with a very important merger. The name “National Gender and Equality Commission” is very clear – it deals with gender issues. At the moment, women are the weaker gender. Probably later on, it will be men who will be the weaker gender but for now the Commission only deals with women’s issues as suggested by its name. Again, there is the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), which deals with infringement of human rights, gender-based violence, child labour and rights of persons with disabilities, all of which are human right issues. Sometimes when reporting cases of infringement of human rights, there is so much fracas that people may not know where to report directly. We have tortured those who are already tortured. A child who has been abused by stepbrothers, stepfathers or stepmothers may not know where to report. He or she goes to the KNCHR and is told that it is a gender issue. If the child is a person living with disabilities, he or she will be told that they should go and report to the National Council for Persons with Disabilities. We torture those who have already been tortured. In our tradition, some infringements of human rights are issues that one may not want to bring out in the open. When you are supposed to report to three or four commissions, you better hide the information because you do not want it to get out there. Some issues like gender-based violence and sexual abuse are private and you need confidentiality and privacy. How do you get confidentiality and privacy when you have to report to three or four commissions? Again, when it comes to the issue of expenditure, we are spending so much money to deal with the same issue. I support the merger of the National Gender and Equality Commission and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, so that they become the Kenya National Human Rights and Equality Commission. Otherwise, it will be very expensive to maintain them. Some of us in the disability movement were saying that we also need our own commission - the National Disability Commission of Kenya. I heard that in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), they wanted to establish a Youth Commission of Kenya. How many commissions will we have in this country? Older persons and children will also demand their own commissions. Are we ready to support them financially? The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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