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    "id": 1147889,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "here? If the job has run its course and he qualifies, please let us get better reasons for opposing people. To my brother from Rendille, I understand you. Minorities need to be added. I will support you next time on any commission appointment that comes to the Floor of the House because I am also a minority. I am a Suba. I am not only saying it for today. I am actually a great champion of minority rights because I am a minority myself. My father is a Suba and my mother is a Luo. Perhaps, that is one thing that people do not know. Because of that, I push a minority agenda. What we agreed on – and the Hon. Speaker made a ruling on it – is that when looking at issues of diversity, we look at all the commissions in totality. If it is a commission where we are replacing two or three people, how do we represent the face of Kenya with her 43 tribes? Now we even have the Zimbabwean ones that we added recently. They are my in-laws. They have not even been given the post of the chairman of a cattle dip. Do you now want to add my Zimbabwean relatives? Let us be honest, as Members of the House. If we want to attack somebody, let us do it with good reasons. Remember what you are doing to someone will one day be done to you or your child. Let us not behave as though the people who are brought here are like chairs or stools! They are human beings. They are Kenyans who also have families and have needs like us. The way that I will one day be happy for your children if they get a position, is the same way that we should be happy for this John Ogallo, if he gets a position. If there was a serious issue on integrity, I do not care where he comes from! I would be the first person to oppose his appointment because I am very strong on governance issues. Having listened to Members, I was almost tempted at some point to even infer that the problem was that his name begins with an ‘O’, but because no Member made that inference, I will not say it. I hope that we dispel any such thought from our minds and think Kenyan. That is because we are all Kenyans. If somebody qualifies and has no governance blot in his curriculum vitae (CV), let them get what they deserve. My brother, I am sure that the next time there is a Rendille being considered for appointment, I will support him or her. I support the Motion."
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