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    "id": 1122486,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1122486/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "via administrative power that you are trying to apply here. There is more to be done in putting these things together. I, therefore, disagree. In that amendment, the powers that you are quoting are incorrect as per Article 255(1)(g) of the Constitution. The merging will reverse all the gains made in the promotion of gender equality. We will lose strategic clarity and focus. The real danger is to mainstream the main issues and the gains that we have made in gender and mix them up with human rights. They are two very different elements and if you are worried about costs, then reduce the commissioners to three in each commission. That will be better than the nine commissioners that we currently have. You are introducing conflict of interest in one body and it may end up like the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) or something else. This is going to be destroyed. You are trying to destroy something that was put together by the Constitution. This proposal is misconstrued, mismatched, misadvised and with bad intention. I totally object to this merging. You must consolidate your strengths. You cannot merge your weaknesses. You should consolidate your strengths but this proposal here is not doing so. It is going through the backdoor to alter the ideas, visions and the mission that we had when we were in the CKRC in 2005. Where were you when we were being teargassed? You were not there. Where were you when this was happening? You were not there. I was there. The reason why Nominee 001 is walking around like a king is because we gave him that power. We gave him that recognition and that is why he grew up. I sit in the Special Funds Account Committee and they wanted to bring Uwezo Fund, Youth Fund and then Women Fund together. Five years later, they have not been able to do a thing. They have destroyed whatever work Uwezo Fund, Youth fund and Women Fund were doing. They have actually put a stop to it. For five years, my constituency has not had a single Uwezo loan. This is a bad intention of trying to take this country back to where it came from and reverse the gains that we have made in gender equality. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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