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    "id": 1134579,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiminini, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Chris Wamalwa",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act, the two officers qualify. The critical thing is the key objective of this Commission which is to ensure aspects of gender and equality. It is nice to note that one of the commissioners comes from the minority. This brings in the aspect of equality. On the aspects of gender, we are told they are five. We have heard about the two and the other five. How I wish that the Mover would have gone further and do the tabulations to tell us in terms of the gender representation, if it meets the two-thirds gender rule. If you divide two by five, it can meet the two-thirds gender rule. We are just telling the commissioners as they come in, that when you look at their reports, it is not much they are doing. We need to see this practice in terms of the two-thirds rule, particularly when it comes to appointments to positions is adhered to. This is the Commission that is responsible for ensuring there is the aspect of equality and the aspect of two-thirds gender rule. This is because in many other government entities, we are seeing things happening with impunity where you find that the appointments are coming in place and they are not meeting the aspect of the gender rule. As a Parliament, we will support and we thank the President for particularly looking at the aspects of that particular person from the minorities, the way Hon. Sankok had mentioned. Because there is big business that we are waiting to transact, I was actually not prepared to discuss this one. I was waiting for the debate on the Political Parties (Amendment) Bill. In line with Standing Order No. 95, can we call the Mover to reply?"
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