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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, we found ourselves in a unique position where we had to constitute this commission; I wanted to begin by telling hon. Members that it is very necessary now, more so in the current time. People are talking about dialogue and there are various sorts of tensions, religious, ethnic and everything. Possibly, this is the most important commission. Therefore, there was need to have it constituted. I will take the House through the considerations we went through in coming to the 15 names. We were concerned to ensure there is institutional memory in the commission. The commissioners who have since gone had served in the commission for a period of about four years. During those four years, contrary to perception, this is a hate speech commission. Through interviews, investigations and interactions with former commissioners, most of whom applied, we confirmed there was a lot of ground work covered to found the work of the commission going into the future. So, if you look at the list of persons here, the person called Alice Wairimu Nderitu was with the Commission. The person called Millie Lwanga Odongo was also with the Commission. Up to four of them applied, but after going through the interview and listening to them we considered the values that we wanted the commission to assist our society with; we deemed it necessary that we recommend these two people to His Excellency the President, so that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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