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    "id": 917810,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. My amendment was proposing the inclusion of a lawyer with expertise in intellectual property law. What the Chair of the Committee is doing in the two subsections includes the law profession… The reason why I was talking about intellectual property law is because this is a field where lawyers with expertise in intellectual property law would be of use. Even though the law profession is mentioned twice in the Chair’s amendment, it is weaker than my proposed amendment. It is weaker in the sense that my amendment made it mandatory that there would be a lawyer but in his amendment, there may or may not be a lawyer. I do not know which Member was complaining about the law profession appearing twice. The proposed subsection (d)(i) mentions two persons with professional qualifications in the fields of science and technology, law, trade, business or industry. This means that they can pick any two in the list given. It could be business and industry and not law. The proposed subsection (d)(ii) mentions two persons, one with professional qualifications in finance and another one with professional qualifications in law or human resource management. Putting the word “or” immediately after the word “law” means that it is not mandatory. The likelihood is that you could miss the lawyers in either provision. I would have urged the Chair, if possible, to re-do that amendment, but it is not a hard and fast rule for me. If it is included, I hope that the appointing authority will have the wisdom to include a lawyer. What I also love about the Committee’s proposal is the inclusion of gender and regional balance. Nonetheless, I also support Hon. Washiali so I do not know how you will marry that. I am willing to drop my amendment even though his proposal is weaker than mine in terms of law. I am willing to drop my amendment."
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