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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other reason why I support this Motion is that we actually need, as the other hon. Members have said, a very quick and efficient method of dispute resolution in our parties. As a country, we have achieved a lot. I know a lot of times we actually challenge ourselves, but we have done a lot as a country, by creating a lot of democratic space; we need to guard that space very jealously. That is why we need a quick means of settling disputes, especially within parties. This will also ensure that the sort of scenarios that we have seen in the past within our parties will be a thing of the past. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would want to also say that the persons who have been nominated are persons of integrity. Even though I agree to some degree with what Mr. Mungatana has said, I would also want to say that we also need persons who do not come with political background. Sometimes I feel that as a House we are not too sure of what we want. When we have Mr. Ligale chairing something then we say: “We should not have appointed a politician” what are we doing? When we bring in persons who do not come with political baggage, we say: “We should have appointed a politician”. We must be very sure. Perhaps, that is one of the reasons why our Committee has recommended that we have two more slots in a future amendment, so that we can have diversity. This will ensure that persons who come in with political experience and knowledge can be tempered with persons who come with a very professional approach. The lawyers who come in, come with a very high level of integrity. If you evaluate one of the persons who is nominated, even in the election of the Law Society of Kenya for the Judicial Service Commission position he was number two, meaning that he has the confidence of lawyers across the country. I am also happy that, as a country and a House, we are very careful about constitutional provisions; we have lived up to the requirement for gender parity. However, I would want us to have a situation where three commissions conform to the gender parity in the opposite direction. It is not only the women who must be at the tail end of the one-third. As the party whips go to look at the Revenue Allocation Commission, can we for the first time have more women? Or, in the Commission on Implementation of the Constitution, can we for the first time have more women, so that we have the one-third---"
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