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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Siaya CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Christine Ombaka",
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        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I want to support this, but with apprehension. It is true that when vetting takes place, we look at certain things. We look at the education of the individual. We look at age, gender and regional balance. Those are basically the factors that we consider when vetting nominees that the President has forwarded to the House. Even though the nominees are eight, and a majority of us support them, we still have to recognise the fact that the list is not regionally balanced. Gender-wise, everything is okay. We have four women and four men. That is fantastic. The President has done a great thing on that front by considering women for these positions. But when it comes to regional balance, there are eight names which if you look at clearly - I could be wrong, but I have tried to check so that I am fair in my comment - there are three nominees who come from one community and the other five are spread out. So, regional balance is not taken care of very well. We are supposed to help the President de-tribalise this country and ensure that every tribe is represented and not repeated. If they are eight, we are not asking that two or three members of the same community be nominated and that is fine. We still need to point out those weaknesses so that in the next appointment, the President does not 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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