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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Mbarire",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Tourism",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. At the outset, I would like to congratulate the Minister for his appointment. I believe him and my teacher at the university, Dr. Sambili, will give Kenya a lot of support in terms of ensuring that we actualise Vision 2030. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I begin by saying that by looking at the list, I can see that they are credible people. I may not know all of them, but I support a proposal by one hon. Member that it is important in future, to bring the names to a Committee of Parliament so that it can go through them. It can also have a serious analysis of the curriculum vitae brought to them and them recommend particular names to Parliament. Right now, we are passing just names and knowing somebody in the newspapers. But we really do not know much about the particular person. I think 700 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 24, 2008 that will be very important. We did the same with Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC), Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHCR) and others. I think that is very important and it should happen in future. I also want to say that by looking at the list, it is clear that the Minister did not have much say in the names that were brought to him from the various organisations. But under Section 5(3)(f), he had the leeway to propose names brought to him. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you look at the names that came through the representative organisations, you will realise that there was nobody from Eastern Province. Therefore, I was hoping that with the four names that the Minister had, he should have looked at the regions that were not represented among the eight names, and tried to balance them. Eastern Province is missing out in this list! It is very important that we get somebody from that province. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Minister has been able to achieve the 30 per cent rule of the inclusion of women. I also understand that there is quite a number of young people in that committee. This should become the tradition in everything that we do in this country. This is the only way to develop this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me just state a few of my concerns about CDF. I hope that the Minister can listen to this. In the last Parliament, there were very many development projects carried out with CDF money across the country."
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