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    "id": 816356,
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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Hon. Millie Odhiambo is my niece and she knows I will not declare my interests to her in those areas she is thinking about. I am not interested in the nominees other than to the extent that I know they are capable of serving in those offices, to which they have been nominated. I only started with the nominee for Chair. I am certainly going to the others. So, Hon. Millie Odhiambo should not worry. But I am happy that Hon. Millie Odhiambo has acknowledged that I have some abilities and interests beyond the important national services we are giving for now. So, I highly recommend and actually support the nomination of Hon. Kajuju to serve. There is the second lady nominee, Madam Lucy Ndung’u. Let me only say that if you can administer or be in charge of a body administering political parties in the country, if you know how we behave in our political parties – and you do so not in a confirmed capacity but in an acting capacity but do so with the resoluteness with which Madam Ndung’u did her work – then we are talking of a person who has been petitioned, a person who can listen to anybody and a person who can withstand pressure in a commission of this magnitude. Therefore, I also recommend her. I had mentioned that Mr. Opiyo is not known to me but based on the papers he presented and, of course, the confirmations by all Committee Members, this is a person of capable knowledge and experience on matters human rights. He is a person who confirms to us that, indeed, there is nobody who is disabled but we have people in Kenya in our formation who are able in different ways. In ending, let me thank His Excellency the President for confirming that, indeed, what we term as the building bridges initiative with His Excellency Raila Amolo Odinga is a reality. Long before, more so in the 11th Parliament, you remember we were complaining about ethnicised appointments. There was a time I contributed in a matter of nominations being approved before 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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