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    "id": 1494216,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyeri Town, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Duncan Mathenge",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am a member of the Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity. The representation by my friend, Hon. Rindikiri, is far from the truth in terms of the depth of involvement that the Committee engages in with different Government institutions, commissions and Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs). We not only looked at the numbers, but also asked for documents. The mandate of the Committee extended beyond looking at employment diversity, which is the representation of all Kenyan communities in public employment. It is imperative to note that the threshold that is set in law is not more than 30 per cent. Largely, from a historical perspective, the benchmark of when we started this audit is 2012. After that year, COVID-19 happened. There have been freezes in employment, and the requirement is for us to put in place some measures that accord the under-represented or un-represented communities to have affirmative action for on-boarding. Those measures cannot be set only by the Committee; it is the responsibility of this House."
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