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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, the proposed amendment is that as it stands now, we have about 18 members appointed to the Board and so what this particular clause is doing is to establish the composition. We have deleted some of those organizations and we have added a few other people and so the numbers have changed. Then the procedure in which they can also be nominated which was not in the main Bill has been added. Now I have understood; there have been petitions about NGOs and religious organizations. First, we want to allow the composition of the Board to what is now acceptable within the Constitution of up to a maximum of nine members. We also looked at it from the ten years of administering the fund. We were looking at, with due respect, what they are really bringing to the Board? So we felt that in order to reduce the numbers, some of these organizations are very good but they are not necessary for the Board but for the religious ones, we have gone further to factor them at the constituency level where we think the real action takes place."
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