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    "content": "because they know them or they were former colleagues or they designed a nice card yet we are sending them to represent Kenya and not necessarily specific regions. They are to represent Kenya in the entire East Africa Community (EAC). Moving forward, I hope that we can create systems through which we can have a more objective method of selecting the candidates. They can come and express themselves for us to have a more rigorous process so that the best can go there. That is before we give this mandate to the people. We also need to amend the nomination rules of the political parties for them not to send us names from the same region. You will find that almost three or four people from one community are being nominated and many communities are left out. Of course, we have more than nine communities. Going forward, there should not be more than one nominee from the same community. They are going there to represent our country and as much as possible, we want – You have seen the state that our country is in. I think that every step and every effort that is made to increase the feeling of inclusivity and representation across board must be supported. We also need to look at the matter of the term of office of EALA. It would make sense if we do not have all of the nominees have their terms expire at the same time. In these Houses, it will be easy to find former Members around who can give you some institutional history of what has been happening if an entirely new Parliament is elected in. It is very easy to follow what is going on in the National Assembly and the Senate. However, apart from the secretariat of EALA, if you have an entirely new team of Members in EALA, more often than not, the rest are from scratch. No one is able to carry on the tradition or the institutional memory of what has been happening there. I look forward to us making a good choice. I will urge Members of the Senate and the National Assembly to stop looking at it purely because of political expediency. It should not be about the people who are being rewarded. For me, EALA should not be a reward. It is a task and a duty to represent your country. We must keenly look at these people. We can do our own research. Ideally, Parliament should provide more details about these people. I am not sure if it is there. I stand to be corrected if it is there. I would like to look at all their Curriculum Vitae. I would like to know what their experiences have been. I would like to see some of the utterances they have been making. If someone has been divisive in Kenya, you can imagine what they are going to do at EALA. That is the basis upon which I will make my decision. I heard my colleague from Nyamira County asking his party not to intimidate him. I would like to tell him that fortunately for us in Jubilee, we are not intimidated. Intimidation is not part of our language. We consult as often as possible. I believe that each Member will make an objective decision, based on their conscience, on the people to support. I will urge Members to try and have a good mix of both young people, who I have seen on this list, as well as those who have experience. I am glad that I have seen one member from Nairobi County, Hon. Samuel Mbugua. I will definitely support him having in mind that he is coming from my County. I foresee some people having a dilemma because they have more than one person from their general region even if they are nominated from different parties. Jubilee has nominated two people from Mandera and a number of people from counties that are so The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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