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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to thank the honourable Chair for very ably moving the Motion. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in seconding, I would want to be very brief. I want to agree that the persons that are nominees are very highly qualified. Secondly, they bring very divergent strengths, because they are only three in this Commission. It is important that we have persons with very divergent strengths. We have a person who is bringing law in as a strength; we have another person who is bringing gender and development as a strength, and we have another person who is bringing community development and grassroots work as a strength. Then, they also have different gender as a strength, because we have one man and two women. These persons are also at different age levels; we have a very young person like Otiende Amollo; others are middle aged; somebody is not too young and not too old. So, for me, that is good. Finally, I want to make a further comment that while I agree with the Chair on Section 254 of the Constitution, one of the challenges that we are going to face as a House is the issue of addressing equality and equity at the same time. The Constitution provides for both but where somebody is qualified, we must take them into consideration and give them a chance yet we have cases of historical injustices. We have minority communities like the Abasuba and the women who for many years have not been given opportunity. Because of that, whenever we make considerations, we must look at issues of equity. We have issues of equity even in relation to religion. When addressing these issues, we will take into account not only equality but also equity. Sometimes equity will require that you are not equal. With those few remarks, I second."
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