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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have provided for a non-renewable term for the secretary to the Commission which is renewable once and provided for the qualification of appointment and also for the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and accounting officers of the Commission. So, there is slight improvement in terms of what was provided for and what we are proposing in this Bill that seeks to repeal the original Act 2012 that has been in place. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Clauses 32 to 42 have provisions that deal with discrimination, hate speech and negative ethnicity. When we talk about cohesion, the first thing that people think of is hate speech. That is where the Commission has really been trying to show that they are working or stamps their authority. They have dealt a lot on hate speech. However, we would want to see them empowered to deal with many other things. Dealing with discrimination is one of the things that can cause friction in this country. On the issue of negative ethnicity, for example, what I just said and the clip that I mentioned about a Member of Parliament (MP) and dealing with ethnic discrimination is one acts that if we dealt with it as a country, then, we will deal with the issue of inclusivity and at the end of the day, we will have less friction, which means more cohesiveness in this country."
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