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    "id": 477989,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "Thank you for giving me the chance to also support this Report. Let me start by appreciating what the Committee has done. It is important to get these Commissioners. In this country, we are all discussing about lack of inclusiveness. We are saying that some people in this country feel like they are being excluded from public activities. That being the case, if we are not careful, we will get into problems. Where people feel like they are excluded, things can get worse. As I support this Report, there are a number of reservations that I want to make, which might help in coming up with the final list. However, I am sure President Kenyatta is the person who will determine the number. Before I go to the number, the spirit of this House is to have fewer Commissioners. I do not know whether this Committee took time to handle this important question of whether we need the eight Commissioners or we can do with three. I would have wanted to see a recommendation from the Committee possibly telling the President that three Commissioners would do the work, so that we can move from eight to three. This is important because we are talking about eight Commissioners. Being a Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, our recommendation has been between three and five. So, the position of the Committee in terms of the number is still not very clear. I would have wished that we reduce the number to three or four. I believe that most of the work of these commissions is done by the technical people who are in charge of advocacy and other departments, but not the Commissioners."
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