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    "id": 1503592,
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    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I really appreciate your ruling to allow a few Members to contribute to this important Motion. You know what we are discussing are independent commissions. They are constitutional commissions and they play a very key role in this country. It is important for the House to pronounce itself on who are going to manage those commissions. The Independent Policing Oversight Authority has been in existence for some time since we got our new Constitution of Kenya, 2010. I want to raise three issues relating to IPOA. First, is on performance. Many Kenyans have complained to IPOA about what the general police do to them. There have been issues in terms of how they have delivered in finalising cases. I want to encourage the new Board of the IPOA that will be coming in to make sure that, as it works – they will have a lot of work – it does so in a timely manner. That is very important for Kenyans. My second point is on the issue of regional representation. The Constitution demands that we consider regional balance as a necessary consideration when we are constituting those commissions. There has been this matter where … Nominees to those commissions are coming here one by one. We approved the nominees to the National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC) and now we are dealing with the IPOA nominees. As a House, it is time we start looking at those commissions in totality. We need to look at how Kenya is represented in those commissions. We have seen a trend where a number of regions are left out in those commissions. We will not be promoting Kenya as a country if there is exclusion of some regions. The third point is gender representation. We need to find out how gender is represented in those commissions. Unless we address it in totality, one gender will be disadvantaged. I wish that could be done. Six years have lapsed for most of the commissions. The people who oversee and then vet them can start looking at this issue in totality. With those many remarks, I support. Thank you."
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