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    "id": 900023,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/900023/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Maina Kamanda",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13166,
        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to reply. Let me thank the Members who have contributed to this Bill. Members are complaining that they are also supposed to be in the commissions. I want to tell Members that before we were taken to court, in the list that we had shortlisted of 54 persons, this Committee had even proposed more than six former MPs to be in it. This is because we believed those are leaders who understand the issues of the country. Having lost an election does not mean that you cannot serve somewhere else and, maybe, be useful in another area. On the eight commissioners, I can assure you that if the President brings people from one community, the Committee will reject it. That is because, at the end of the day, it will be brought to our Committee. If they are eight, I think the President, in his wisdom, will go to the previous provinces and maybe pick one from every region and give eight people from those regions and include a person with disability. Even in the last shortlisting we did, we had shortlisted people with disability. We cannot agree as a Committee to have eight members and we do not see either one or two. If need be, they can even be all if possible. If it is one or two, the Committee will appreciate and thank the President. I thank the Members."
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