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    "id": 701003,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "when people are being selected is to map them on the basis of qualifications, suitability and skills. This should be irrespective of these other considerations that may lie in the Constitution. The Constitution does not say that you begin by choosing tribe. It says that we choose the best, but among them have an eye out for this distribution. So, the first priority ought to be that we map them out for suitability, qualifications, and skills. After that, we can map them out for gender. I must say that on gender, they have done very well. They have not picked the five from one gender, but three ladies out of five is a good thing. That is the second order of selection that you do after the first round has been fully mapped out. So, much as the House feels obligated to have to approve the nominees as if not approving would be a challenge to the President, I think that even the President is a man of meritocracy. I hear him say that all the time. We have Kenyans who are eminently qualified and they come from all corners of this country. When I worked for the World Bank, we had a Kenyan from Meru working at the Barclays Bank, who was one of the topmost economists at the World Bank. He had been to Yale and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a visiting scholar. People like that do not get to see the light of day. He is well published in this area. He is highly qualified. I know we cannot reach everybody when we are doing this, but let us send the message across without fear or favour and without issues of ethnicity creeping in. Let us try and get the best Kenyans. Kenya is in the leadership position in the region and can also be in leadership position in the world in this particular respect. So, regarding the team of five persons that we have received, other than the first two names on the list, I do not find the other three persons suitably qualified. I have a partial support for the Report. Thank you Hon. Deputy Speaker"
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