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    "id": 821639,
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    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Yes, Hon. Speaker. I have a lot of respect for the former Ombudsman and current Member of Parliament for Rarieda. What is before this House is the three names sent by the appointing authority. What Hon. Otiende is telling you to address is the full composition of the NGEC. This is a commission that is constituted through a staggering process. In fact, there are two commissioners of one gender whose term is coming to an end. You remember that even at the beginning of this Parliament, the President sent you seven names of Cabinet Secretaries. The same question came to fore: How do we address gender parity in the total composition of the Cabinet? I am sure my colleagues who are in the Committee on Appointments remember we argued over it for a long period. We can, as a House, only address it in as far as the message that you have received, read and sent to a committee. Do those three names constitute the constitutional threshold of gender parity? We have two women and a man. That is the compliance standard. This House cannot legislate in vain or in anticipation. This House can only legislate on a matter before it either from the Executive, the Senate, individual Members or from the Executive through the Leader of the Majority Party. Hon. Speaker, you can only address yourself to the message that came to you, which you read and sent to the Committee. If the five commissioners of the NGEC were appointed on the same day, that principle would have applied. Hon. Speaker, address yourself to what is before the House. What message have you read? What did you refer to the Committee? The Committee has vetted and the report before the House is about three individuals. Those are the only three individuals that the Committee or this House can subject to certain thresholds."
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