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    "id": 194040,
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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": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank the hon. Member for donating five minutes to me. I want to support the Motion by saying that it is a noble idea. I want to encourage the hon. Member, who brought the Motion to bring a Motion to amend the Constitution. If you look at Section 16(1), an issue of this magnitude should actually be entrenched in the Constitution. The reason why I am saying so is that it will help us deal with a lot of disgruntlement that we saw here. Other than the reason that people call personal, the reason why people get disgruntled and complain is because of lack of equity in the appointment of Ministers, first by region, and secondly by gender. It is an embarrassment that the President promised that 30 per cent of all public appointments shall be women, but if you look at the Ministerial appointments, I am not lobbying for myself because we are not going to get any further appointments, you can see that they are very lopsided in relation to gender and regions. There are regions in this country that have been marginalised in the sense that they still do not have adequate representation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, regarding a clean Cabinet, most of us think of \"clean\" only in terms of corruption; we forget that there are Ministers who have committed sins of omission and not only of commission. During the period of violence there are Ministers who ordered people to shoot Kenyans. Police were ordered to shoot fellow Kenyans. Therefore, when we talk of a clean Cabinet, it should exclude such Ministers. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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