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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "Secondly, it was very difficult to serve in this Committee. It was a Committee that was formed by Parliament but majorly consisted of two major coalitions in the Assembly. Every coalition had its issues. They had their irreducible minimums. There was the issue of give and take, as Hon. Jakoyo has said. In such an arrangement, one coalition decided to leave this and the other coalition decided to give that. I know the coalition I belong to, and in particular the party I belong to - ODM - is not very happy because there are certain fundamental things that they wanted addressed which were not captured in the Report, but because of the goodwill of the country and the statesmanship that our party leadership showed, we agreed to move with what we have. I am on record as opposing the idea of sending 11 names to His Excellency the President. I was for the idea that only seven names should be sent to the President for appointment. The selection panel should only select seven names just like it happens with the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). However, because of the collective decision that the Committee made, they decided to send nine names for the position of commissioner and two names for the position of chairperson. The issue of party hopping was canvassed. The issues were bigger than that. There were people who proposed that all political parties should do their nomination in one day, it must be gazetted and that should be the end of nominations. So, we said that these political parties are like religious groups. Some are like Catholics, others like Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) and Muslims. They do not go to prayers on the same day. Muslims go for prayers on Friday while SDAs go for prayers on Saturday. So, how will you conduct nominations? I even told them that this country is based on the African society and people are polygamous in nature. At night they are in this party and during the day they are in another party. Let us just allow these people to do what they feel like, and the people will decide at the end--- Wacha kuzima hiyo kitu!"
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