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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are discussing a very important Commission that is going to determine how Kenya is developed in the future and our resources are going to be allocated. It would be unfortunate if Members took the seriousness out of that by joking about it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to congratulate this House for that amendment that has just taken place to reinstate the Member who would have been excluded for reasons other than qualifications. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I support this Report by the Committee, subject to that amendment that has been made, I would like to just mention one thing: This is the third Commission that we are setting and approving in this House. An issue has arisen in this House about the geographical distribution of the Commissioners. I just want to alert the House as we move, especially to call the attention of the Oversight Committee that we have given the mandate of vetting these names as they come – that one thing that we need to be cautious of is that the Constitution wants the whole country to be represented within these Commissions. I think that undertaking is provided for by all the Commissions. The only way to do that is by looking at the 47 counties that have been set up in the Constitution. I would like to ask the Committee, as we go on recess and as they look at the next issue; to prepare a matrix showing all the Commissions that need to be appointed; showing all the 47 counties and dividing that with the number of Commissioners so that, as much as possible, we can have equal representation of Commissioners spread across the 47 counties. We should not end up with a situation where we are only looking at the ethnic diversity. It would be very unfortunate for Kenya if, for example all the names from community “x” are from county “y”. That is not what we want to do. So, I would like to ask for social cohesion of this country. Let us make sure we have that matrix to show that, at least, every county will have two Commissioners in each Commission spread out throughout the entire country for social cohesion and for the people of Kenya to feel that they are represented in every Commission. Therefore, we should not just look at ethnic diversity or broad region diversity. Every county must feel that it is part of decision-making in the new constitutional framework. With those words, I beg to support."
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