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    "id": 477934,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "We were keen to deal with the issue of special interest. This is now a constitutional principle. Persons with disability in this country are required progressively constitute about 5 per cent membership of public office. We have minorities. We have people from various backgrounds which are considered marginalized. Hon. Members, if you look at this list, you will see a person like Mr. Eric Oluoch Ogwang. He is a lecturer of law but he is a person with disability; he walks on two crutches. We never considered the fact that he suffers a disability because he is a person who has competence. He teaches human rights law among areas that we saw in his CV. We said that these are matters we needed to bring on board. Of course, if you look at the composition of these names, what will be clear leaders and all hon. Members is that we considered not only ethnic balance but even regional balance. There are names that I need to mention. If you look at a name like Rose Macharia Mghoi, I wanted to say that over 250 citizens of this country applied for this position. We detached ourselves from being Members of the Committee. We left a technical team; in fact, we had the Clerk and other people from Government departments shortlisted the 32 people from the applicants . Of course, it is the 32 whom we interviewed to come up with these 15 names."
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