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    "id": 714909,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, it is in light of the fact that some of us have to build capacity for those who might return here. That is why the Member for North Horr has high chances of returning here. I am, therefore, building his capacity to be the next Chairman of this Committee in the next Parliament. I wish to point out a few issues that may not have come up. We received three memoranda from members of the public with regard to these nominees. The first one was from the Kenya Forest Working Group which urged us to ensure that there was gender representation in the council. The second one was from the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI) in support of Mr. Suresh Patel’s suitability to serve as a member of the Climate Change Council and finally, the memorandum from the Green Belt Movement raising objection as to whether the Kenya Climate Change Working Group is a representative of the organisations that should nominate. We rejected the third memorandum because the Green Belt Movement was proposing the Pan-African Justice Alliance, which is not a Kenyan registered organisation to nominate and so we are comfortable with the nomination of Mr. John Kioli as the representative of the most represented civil society organisation in this country involved in climate change. Hon. Speaker, I want to speak on one issue that is becoming a trend when organisations are asked to nominate individuals. They ensure that the person they want has zero competition from their number two. Let us look at the nominee from the Council of University Education. They decided to give a tutorial fellow the nomination slot intended for women so that the President’s hands would be tied in not nominating their preferred person and yet we have hundreds of women with qualifications in the climate change area working in different universities in this country. So, we felt it was important for us to reject this nomination to show the Council of University Education that they cannot send us the person they did not want so that the President’s hands are tied to appointing a person they want. We are ordering them that they nominate another woman who has more experience and is qualified enough to sit in a council that is chaired by the President. So, as a House, we must stand firm and stop rubberstamping nominations, so that people force the appointing authority to nominate their friends. That is the same reason we rejected the nominee from the indigenous and marginalised groups. Whereas she works for an organisation that serves marginalised communities, she does not represent marginalised communities as anticipated by the Act."
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