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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Tuya",
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I need protection from my two good friends from Kikuyu and... It is Mheshimiwa Gikaria. I was congratulating the President for a job well-done in the exercise of this exclusive prerogative vested in him. I would like to just highlight a few things because it is not possible to consider each individual on this nomination list one by one. Looking at the issue of compliance with the relevant institutions and particularly on ethics and integrity, we have seen from the Report of the Committee and even following the proceedings of the vetting that these nine individuals got a clean bill of health in matters of integrity. Not any one of these nominees was found to have any matter in the courts for the last three months as is required as part of the clearance. When it comes to the issue of tax compliance, we again see that these nine great Kenyans got a clean bill of health in this front. They are, therefore, leading from the front. When it comes to the issue of gender balance, again the President - in respect of the rule of law and the constitutional requirement for the two-thirds gender requirement - we see that the list that is before us this afternoon is compliant with regard to the gender threshold. The other impressive aspect of this list of nominees is with regard to the youth representation. Out of the nine nominees, we have the nominee for Sports and Heritage, Mr. Muhamed representing the youth. The Committee notes that even without that constitutional requirement for a threshold like we have for gender, the President has gone out of his way to make sure that the youth have a place at the table to make critical decisions in the Executive by appointing this nominee. Sometimes we superficially want to look at somebody’s credentials and academic qualifications. This afternoon I learnt that there is something to do with emotional intelligence. I think the President must have applied his mind to such unseen qualifications in some of these nominees and saw that they have some very critical qualities in the various dockets that they have been nominated to. When it comes to the issue of diversity in ethnicity and regional balancing, again the President’s list is beyond reproach. As a pastoralist, we are happy and feel very well considered by the President’s list. A third of the nominees such as Hon. Mr. Keriako Tobiko, Hon. Munyes The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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