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    "id": 297992,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/297992/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
        "slug": "margaret-kamar"
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    "content": "We have got a very good example, arising from the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), where each constituency supplied one person to be appointed Constituency Fund Manager (CFM), who were then rotated. Looking at appointments in the various Commissions and the Directorates being established by the various Commissions, it is very important that we adhere to the equity principle of the Constitution. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am saying this because, as we transit to the devolved system of government, unless we show fairness and equity in public appointments, some counties will develop a tendency to go ethnic, especially if they feel that their own people are not being hired to serve anywhere in the country. People will want to retain positions existing in their counties for members of their own communities. There are fears being raised always about hiring and ethnicity in public institutions. I say this because I am battling with the problem of ethnicity in institutions of higher learning. Therefore, it is very important that every part of Kenya feels represented. Even counties hosting public institutions should host other Kenyans and feel that members of their communities are hosted in institutions that are not within their own counties. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the PSC is an institution which must ensure that this country remains a unitary country, and a country that respects all ethnic groups, including minority groups. I hope that this Commission will be the first one to show equity, right from balancing of its membership, which we have been told will comprise of nine persons. The PSC should actually be a model for other Commissions to emulate. With those few remarks, I beg to second."
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