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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. Speaker, I think it is wrong for Members, without reading a Report of a Committee, to burden Members of the Committee or Chair to be giving them the information. In so far as these individuals are concerned, we have gone through each and every nominee from their dates of birth to the schools they went to; to areas they have been serving in public service or otherwise to date. I do not think Hon. Wamalwa is right to mislead the House that this Committee took its job casually. There is also the other issue which was raised by a Member concerning regional and ethnic balance. I feel it is also brewing. What the Constitution, in Chapter 15, requires is that the commissions are looked at as a whole. You cannot attain regional or ethnic balancing in one but all commissions looked at as a whole should meet the requirement of ethnic and regional balancing. If you did that, Hon. Members, then we would not take time debating those issues. You just need to look at the composition of the ethnic communities which claim they are not properly incorporated in this one and you will be satisfied that if you looked at all these commissions and independent offices, there is satisfactory accommodation. I request Members so that we focus debate that we do not make contributions that seem to undermine the work of a committee without reading the Report. All these issues, even the issue concerning the qualifications of the two former police officers, if we cared to read the Report, those levels at which the individuals served are all there in the Report."
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