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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. Speaker, Sir, I stand to support the Committee Report. In supporting the Committee Report I want to comment on one of the things that the speaker before me, the hon. Assistant Minister has alluded to. He has defined for us the word “passion” even though I will talk on it later. I just want to comment that if you were to look at a dictionary of ethnic languages in Kenya and you went to a section that says Mbura niguka a Kikuyu will tell you it means the rain is coming. A Luo will tell you it means there is a cat on my shoulders. So, the word “passion” when you read it to us in the dictionary and tell us that it means love, sexual love and affection and you do not look at the last meaning which we just went over, then it means you are telling us Mbura niguka means the rain is coming and the Luo will tell you no, it is a cat on my shoulder. So, I just wanted to clear that the word “passion” has many meanings. Having said that, as a Committee for the first time it was amazing we sat and all of us were unanimous on this Report. We were unanimous that the candidates do not qualify. I want to agree with my Committee and these are the reasons for doing that and also cognizant of the fact that I have fought for women’s rights all my life and that when supporting this Committee I will be rejecting two women with very good degrees. On the issue of the chair, I was not here when hon. Members were debating, but the issues that have been raised on integrity on the person of the chair, even now we have just seen Mr. Imanyara has raised even other issues. Whether or not they were proven, we cannot be taking a person to head an institution when we have doubts on their integrity, unless we are saying we are not committed to eradicating corruption in this country. I am very worried when I hear us alluding to the fact, for instance that there is no political will and that there are many people who are corrupt in this country, so, let us take anybody there. If that is true, then we should not be taking people; we should be disbanding that Commission. If we think it will not perform, disband it. But let us not take Kenyans there and pretend that we want to do away with corruption in this country. The reason we have people striking, Kenyans annoyed at us, and dissatisfied Kenyans is because of corruption. Unless and until this country is committed to dealing with corruption and choosing persons who are committed to eradicating corruption, we shall never move forward as a country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to indicate also that another issue that, perhaps, may not have come up is that we were not given any clear indication as to why the person who"
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