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    "id": 177018,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Abdikadir",
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        "legal_name": "Abdikadir Hussein Mohamed",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Administration of Justice and Legal Affairs on the deliberations on nomination of a Commissioner to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, July 30, 2008. The Act under which that Commission operates, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights Act, 2002, which came into force in March, 2003, mandates the National Assembly to fill vacancies in that Commission. The Commission is made up of nine commissioners, in which one vacancy arose at the end of July 2008. The National Assembly then advertised the post of a commissioner and received 198 applications on time. Three were received after the time had run out. Currently, the Commission has eight serving commissioners, who include the current Chair, Ms. Florence Simbiri-Jaoko, the Vice-Chair, Mr. Hassan Omar Hassan, Dr. Samwel Tororei, Mr. Lawrence Murugu Mute, Ms. Fatuma Dulo, Ms. Wambui Kimathi, Ms. Fatuma Ibrahim and Ms. Winfred Osimbo Lituma; the vacant post was occupied by the former chair, Mr. Maina Kiai. We, in the Committee, are very glad that this is one of the few national bodies that has more serving women than men. In the current Commission, five out of the eight are women."
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