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    "id": 63910,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Speaker",
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    "content": "Issue No.7 on whether the nominations meet the Constitutional requirements of regional balance and gender parity needs to be considered in the broad context of all constitutional appointments available, and not on one or two appointments being made at any particular time. It is difficult to establish at this time whether the four nominations accord with requirement for giving a fair deal to all the diversities of Kenya. Considering the emotion which a feeling of unfair treatment has, or may evoke in sections of our society, I see no harm, and it is would probably assist the country very much if important nominations were accompanied by some memorandum explaining how the nominating authority has addressed itself to such constitutional requirements. I concede that this is not an express constitutional requirement, but it is not unconstitutional and I have previously urged against dry, technical and uncreative interpretations of the Constitution. On the face of it, however, and in the present case, considering that there has been no set of Constitutional appointments, so far, in which the majority of the appointees were women, it is hardly inspiring, and it is quite understandable that the argument has been made that the nominations are unconstitutional for discriminating against women contrary to Article 27 of the Constitution."
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