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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to second the Motion, which asks the House to approve the membership of the Committee on Selection. Both sides of the House have proposed their names after consultations. The Minority Party, which is a coalition of parties, after thorough consultations, also agreed to have representation in the Committee on Selection. I just want to mention that this Committee’s sole responsibility, as has been ably demonstrated by the Leader of the Majority Party, is to place members to various Committees of the House and help the leadership of the two sides of the House to place members in various Committees. We have 349 members of the National Assembly. Placing them to various Committees is not an easy task. Therefore, you need people to sit together and balance all the interests. In the case of the minority side, we will be balancing the interests of not just the regions or gender but also the partner parties within the coalition. On our side, we have Hon. Florence Mwikali Mutua and Hon. Nicholas Tindi Mwale. All the major parties within the coalition, which are four, are represented. We have also taken into consideration the issue of gender. We have two women out of the seven members of that Committee. I know that is short of the one-third principle but if you go to the next Motion, which we will soon go to, you will realise that we have three women out of six, which is 50-50 membership. We will make sure, as the leadership of the minority coalition, that we take into consideration the gender principle because we believe in gender. I do believe in gender, and I know my coalition also believes in gender. After getting names or suggestions from both sides of the House – the leadership will propose the names of the membership to these committees through our whips – I expect this Committee to sit next week and have the Committees in place. I actually felt that we seriously need Committees of the House to take up their responsibilities. You have just disposed of a Motion here in the Second Reading and, Hon. Speaker, I could see the difficulty you were in. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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