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    "id": 403538,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/403538/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Is there some allergy that we have? Do we contaminate the public? We are from the public. We are not contagious. Indeed, I can give you examples. We had hon. Njoki Ndung’u from this House who passed the Sexual Offences Act and now is a member of the Supreme Court. She did not wait for five years. Now if she can manage the Supreme Court within five years, unless of course there are some other issues which I do not want to say but really if she did not wait for five years, why should we obligate people to wait for five years to serve in the Media Council? Even then it talks of: “If you have been involved in a political office.” How wide is a political office? Kenyans are looking for jobs. There are some people who were serving in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party and did not make it in the Government. They are hoping to get jobs. If they are good journalists, let them go to the Council. Why should we put them out there struggling to look for jobs because they were in a political office? The other issue I am finding fairly curious is that the same Clause 9 provides a lot of standards and one of them which is good is the constitutional provisions, if you indulge me one minute."
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