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    "id": 403536,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "have any training in journalism but I am a writer. We therefore want to be able to hold the true journalists to account and not spoil their names when we have the rogue people who purport to be journalists going around claiming to be journalists. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other thing I would also want amended as the Members have put their voices to is on the issue of appointment of the Council, borrowing again from the LSK. I have never seen any Cabinet Secretary appointing for us the members of the LSK Council. So, we must have faith in the media to choose the people that they want because they must have faith in the people that are going to do that regulation. However, if you give the Cabinet Secretary some leeway to appoint people and the Council does not perform, who will we hold accountable? Is it the Council or the Cabinet Secretary? We do not want to hold the Cabinet Secretary accountable because this is about self regulation. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other issue that I want to speak to is Clause 9(2)(c) and this goes to us as Members of Parliament. We have a real bad name and not only Members of Parliament but politicians. We have a bad name and we have a tendency of legislating ourselves out of jobs. We are not going to be in this Parliament forever. None of us was born to be in this Parliament forever. We may be here today and gone tomorrow, as some of my colleagues were here in March this year and they are no longer here, and then you provide here that a person who has held a political office in the past five years cannot be in the Council. Why? Kwani there is--- Sorry for using the word"
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