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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the list as presented by the Committee. I would like to join the others in congratulating this Committee for coming to this House united. Previously we had a problem where the Committee came and the Members had not agreed at the Committee level. This time round, they have done us proud by being united. This Committee is very serious for this country. We do not want any dot of mistrust as far as the Committee is concerned. I would like to persuade our colleagues that we must come out unanimously so that we can give the Committee a clean bill of health because if we do not, suspicions will start from this Chamber and will spread out. The issue of boundaries is going to be very sensitive. I would like to agree with one of the speakers that we must have clear criteria on what boundaries we want. We must agree on the criteria first. Those criteria must come to this House for approval. Whether we are going to use geographical terrain or population, we need to agree and approve it before we go out there. We want to reduce the debate on the ground and also reduce the acrimony. You will realize that whenever we are acrimonious in the House, it spills to the ground and nothing moves. I always remember the 2005 referendum. It is the acrimony that started in this House that spilled to the ground and the divisions were seen. I would like to persuade my colleagues that we must move together and agree over this Committee. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as for the membership, I believe that this is a team of unquestionable qualifications. I was impressed that we have one PhDs, six Masters degrees and two others. That means that we are going to get quality reports and, more than anything, we shall get paid back for educating these people. When we talk of gender, we are talking of minimum. We do not mean that you must look for exactly three. There seems to be a tradition that whenever we say a minimum of three of either gender, people imagine that we are looking for 30 per cent of women. Sometimes, it could 30 per cent of men. It does not have to be women always. I am saying that because when I look at the master’s degrees that we have, I imagine that there are women who have that qualification but have been left out. I hope that the Committee was not looking for three women, close that then fill the remaining position with men. We must think uniformly when we are thinking of gender. Gender does not really mean women but either side. The other thing that needs to come up clearly in the criteria that we are going to give is where our development unit in this country is going to be. Is it going to be the district or the constituency? That is what is causing anxiety. When you are given more districts or constituencies, you do not know which one is the development unit. Currently, CDF goes to the constituency but the Roads Development Levy goes to the district. So, there is still confusion. A constituency that has two districts gets double the amount of money while the reverse is the case when you have two constituencies in one district. They get only a half the amount for roads while the CDF is double."
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