{"id":400244,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/400244/?format=json","text_counter":164,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Mwaura","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13129,"legal_name":"Isaac Maigua Mwaura","slug":"isaac-mwaura"},"content":"Hon. Chairlady, I am just concerned about the proposal submitted by the Committee concerning the membership as proposed by this amendment. It talks about seven other members and I am wondering whether it is prudent to just have seven members without them being defining what they represent in this organization. I am, of course, informed by the constitutional provisions that require certain quotas be attained progressively for example for persons with disabilities and so on. I do not know whether that can be addressed here substantively. We also have issues around the youth and women. I find it a bit arbitrary to confer such powers on the appointing authority without necessarily guiding the membership to this Council."}