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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matungulu, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mule",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, it is very clear that the drafter of this Bill never understood why these commissions were created. We formed the Human Rights Caucus in the last Parliament with my colleagues, Hon. Neto and the late Ken Okoth – may God rest his soul in peace - squarely to make sure that we strengthen the work of the Commission; the National Gender and Equality Commission, and give them separate powers. It is unfortunate that we are today looking at NGEC as an issue of women. Today, you and I have been talking about the boy child. In another two to three decades to come, the gender that will be suffering will be the boy child. So, we must have a commission which will take care of their needs when that time comes. The notion of merging things is a bit worrying in this country. When the Government merged the United Republican Party (URP) and The National Alliance (TNA), they collapsed all political parties to form the Jubilee Party. You are merging to form a monster which cannot sustain itself. It is high time we protect commissions and strengthen them to do the job they are supposed to do for Kenyans. When you look at the ideology, it beats the purpose of why the commission was formed. It is unfortunate at this hour, that we want to kill the gains of the NGEC. Without wasting time, I wish you could be putting the Question so that we can kill this thing once and for all and allow the commissions to do the best job they can. These commissions are not for this time. They are commissions which will prefer and move this country forward for generations and generations to come. So, I oppose in totality. We will mobilise Members in this House to oppose the Bill so that we can find better ways of strengthening these commissions."
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