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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojaamong",
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        "legal_name": "Sospeter Odeke Ojaamongson",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Report from the Departmental Committee on Administration April 4, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 409 of Justice and Legal Affairs on the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) nominee. First, I must thank the Committee for doing a very good job after having taken a very long time to search all over to find a qualified nominee for FIDA. For all that period, we have been complaining that these people do not have the qualifications. What we used to have in FIDA were quacks and they could not qualify to fit in the Kenya Anti-Corruption Advisory Board. But they have done a commendable job and have come up with one person. However, my question is: Since this organisation belongs to the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and they are lawyers by profession, why can FIDA not be brought into the system via the LSK? Is law the only profession in Kenya? We have teachers who are also professionals. I am a teacher and Mr. Bifwoli is also a teacher. Why are they not appearing in the Kenya Anti-corruption Board? We have agriculturalists, like the veterinary doctors and so many other professionals. For how long are lawyers going to dominate the affairs of this country? We have had problems in the judiciary because of lawyers. We no longer trust them. Engage a lawyer outside here and you will see the suffering that will befall you. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my appeal is that, even though the Committee has done a good job and that is provided for in the Anti-Corruption Act, next time--- In fact, I was preparing to bring an amendment so that if it is women representation in the Advisory Board, we should have somebody like Rukia Sugow who has faced an election in Kasarani and has been elected by around 3,000 delegates from around the country and not just somebody who has been hand-picked from the streets of Kijabe or Koinange and appointed to a board which should have a reputation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Chairman said that Parliament is starting to share power with the Executive through the appointment of people because the appointments pass through Parliament. Mr. Mukiri said that we are now going to change the equation because the appointment will be going to another region. We are not changing anything. These are appointees from the same region where the President has been appointing people from. So, we are making no difference at all. The chairman should accept that we are not changing anything. We are just augmenting what has been happening previously. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we talk about the Executive sharing power with Parliament in terms of appointments, for example, this thing is being done hurriedly. In the next 14 days, it will be taken to the President for approval. In fact, may be, the name is already there. But what happened to somebody like Dr. Rotich? Dr. Rotich has a good track record in this country. He was at the Kenya College of Communications Technology (KCCT) and he did a fantastic job. When Parliament worked so hard to approve his name here, what happened thereafter? Is it because he comes from another ethnic community so that even the President did not even bother to reply? But in the next 14 days, this Mrs. Nyambura will be in the Kenya Gazette, having been appointed on the Kenya Anti-Corruption Advisory Board. Unless we make constitutional changes which the Government is so much against, and we know it, some of us from the minority communities have nothing to say. But one time we might want to break away from your country because if we are not getting anything from you, why should you keep us in your country? The Pokots are not getting anything. Why could you not shop for a Pokot for this appointment because there is no qualification to recruit somebody into FIDA? You just have to be a lawyer. Does it mean that we do not have a female lawyer from Pokot whom FIDA can beckon and say: \"Come and join us.\" I think the fee for joining FIDA is only Kshs10. Why could you not shop for somebody from the Pokot or Teso communities? We have so many Teso ladies who are lawyers. Why should we go for a particular Nyambura? We are still promoting ethnicity, and personally, I have remained---"
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