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    "id": 884451,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Dennitah Ghati",
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        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": "Mr. Robert Nyariki Momanyi Masese is an educationist. He comes from the education sector and you know the NG-CDF has a serious component of education. From my experience, bursaries are the biggest challenge that parents face in ensuring that their children go to school. I am confident that the presence of Mr. Robert Nyarike, who is the Acting Chair, will contribute greatly. You very much know that I am one of the proponents of what we are calling ‘equity’. I come from the Kuria community, which is a minority community in this country. We have communities that have hardly been represented in many serious bodies and institutions. When we have seven slots out of the 47 counties, sometimes when you look at nominees like this, they are equally representative. We cannot talk about looking at seven slots and looking at various ethnicities. There are things sometimes you overlook, like ethnicities, especially when we have few chances that do not warrant a lot of argument. That is why I am saying this is an appointment that is in line with the requirement of our Constitution. It is equally representative. It is fair to gender and disability. I urge the members who have been proposed to the board to get serious on their job, so that the NG-CDF can be disbursed in a timely manner. I am hoping that once the board gets into office and sits down to nominate and elect the chair and vice-chair, for the first time, they can decide to nominate one of the best ladies a chance to be chairperson or vice-chairperson of the NG-CDF Board, so that when we talk about the NG-CDF, we can look at the gender representation in terms of the chairperson and the vice-chairperson of the board."
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