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    "id": 376053,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me begin by thanking the Chairperson, hon. Sabina Chege. for donating one minute to me. I appreciate and congratulate her. First, I wish to clarify that under Chapter 15, all the Commissioners serve for a six-year fixed term. So, it does not matter your age as long as you come in. Secondly, I want to emphasize that we have done so well since the last Government in the application of the gender principle, but we are lost somewhere in the application of the ethnic diversity principle. The region and ethnic diversity principle is under Chapter 15. Article 250(4) - and I wish the Leader of the Majority Party could note this. It requires that all Commissions as a whole shall fully reflect and apply the regional and ethnic diversity. All appointments have been coming in piecemeal from the last Government up to now, before any other appointment is brought to the House. We now require a report from the Government on all the appointments under Chapter 15. All the 12 Commissions and independent offices plus the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, all put together, before you bring in the next lot of appointments subject to Chapter 15, we want to seek regional and ethnic diversity. For the first time, regions should be defined because when we did this in the Constitution, we had intended to have regions. We could not have regions and we ended up with counties. But even if we use the counties as the regions, we need a report of whether the application of that diversity principle is being complied with."
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