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    "id": 282053,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Metito",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Regional Development Authorities",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just want to say a few things about the East African Community. The EAC’s main objectives are to enhance, advocate and solidify social, economic and political gains of the diverse cultural and shades of opinions of the people of EAC. It is good that those interests are taken care of. I want to say that, as we go through the process of nominating and eventually electing those who will represent Kenya in that Assembly, we really must take cognisance and a lot of consideration on those objectives. We must take cognisance of our different shades of opinion and diverse cultural practices. It is good that they all be represented. But before I come to that, I want to agree with my party Secretary General on two things. In the composition of our current National Assembly, where there have been a lot of shifting alliances, some of the rules by the Departmental Committee really may lead us to where we were in 2006. I think it was towards the end of October or early November. There are a lot of party squabbles. So, if we just leave the nomination to the political parties that are represented in the House---- I want to really refer to one or two rules. One, the one that says it is the party leader and party chief whip who will sign the nomination certificate to those who will be brought to this House. If you take into consideration our party alliances, and then you also try to go as per the other rule that says that there should be a very transparent, democratic process whereby every political party will make or will even provide minutes of all the meetings that have taken place; that may be a little bit contradicting. I want to agree with hon. Mungatana that we really need a lot of consultation."
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