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    "id": 1124435,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. On behalf of the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee, allow me to take this first chance to thank all Members who have contributed, both in support and in opposition. I have listened keenly, even the times I was away from the House, to the contributions by Members and they have all been gratifying. We have groups within our society who, for the first time, the Constitution singled out in terms of specialised treatment on human rights matters. These are the children whom Hon. Millie has been very passionate about, and we thank her for it. These are the youth, persons with disabilities, older persons, minorities and marginalised groups, among other sections of the society. For quite some time, the country has been lamenting about the number of commissions, duplicity and whether the nation is going to afford the expenses. When I was moving, I said that the power to split and establish other commissions was donated to Parliament by Article 59(4). I also alerted this House to the fact that the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, as currently established, is not in full accord with the Constitution because it establishes the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, and the Kenya National Human Rights and Equality Commission. We have taken out the name equality and that runs contrary to the commissions established in the Constitution. That is one thing that the Committee sought to remedy. We have been concerned about the number of commissions. Let us be frank. The cost we are talking about - whether we call it National Gender and Equality Commission, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and all these other commissions - if it can be avoided, we agree in principle that they be collapsed. There was glamour even at the level of the Executive that State parastatals be collapsed because the wage bill is too big. We are now talking of the Gender and Equality Commission, which Parliament was right to establish. However, a short while before, the youth were claiming for their commission away from the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and the Gender and Equality Commission. Even in the BBI, a youth commission was being established. I want to tell the Members that PWDs are claiming for their commission. If you do not consolidate these things into Article 59(1) commission, the single one established, there is no way you are going to stop Hon. Sankok and the special group in Kenya whom he represents in the House from claiming and getting a PWDs commission. Minorities and marginalised groups are claiming their commission. Before 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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