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    "id": 522742,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "I will give you an example of the Kurias. If you look at them as a whole, and supposing we said we are taking into account regional balancing and positions are given consistently to one tribe in Migori, we would have taken regional balancing into account when you look at the commissions or committees as a whole. It is something that cannot be satisfied at once but one which we must be conscious of all the time as a country in order to take into account minority interests. That is one way of redressing the minority issues. I am the one, as Vice Chair of the Legal Committee, who moved major amendments to the National Cohesion and Integration Act. Indeed, one of my concerns with that Act is that the Commission is not doing its work. If you go to counties like Homa Bay where I come from, three quarters of the people employed in the county are Luos. We were not trying to balkanise the country when we were bringing devolution. The counties must do something to integrate other tribes. It is not just Homa Bay. The same applies to Nairobi as it applies to Mombasa and other counties. I want to encourage the Chairman of the Commission to do an audit of the counties to see whether they are complying with the National Cohesion and Integration Act, which I do not think they are doing. Though I have a lot, I do not want to take much more time. We had agreed that I would let go of the time. I want to finalise by saying that I would want to urge that part of the work the regulatory authority is doing should include mandatory report of compliance to this law by each county government to Parliament and county assemblies. That means county governments, in compliance with the law on Public Procurement and Asset Disposal, are going to tell us how they have included the minorities, women, youth and persons with disabilities. Right now it is not obligatory in the Act that they must give a report specifically relating to each county. What is provided for is that they can bring some sort of an overall report on policy issues and implementation. I would want the report to be more specific. In order to zero in on counties, we must hold them accountable the same way we are holding constituencies accountable. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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