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    "id": 917961,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/917961/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": "What the Bill is proposing is that the Board may co-opt persons to any of the committees established by the Board. The practice has been that you do not co-opt but you hire consultants or experts. If you co-opt, it means you are bringing members through the backdoor unless of course this infamous Mwongozo has brought new standards. It now looks like the Mwongozo is the Constitution of Kenya! That would be improper. You cannot have board members that are brought in a very specific manner and then you co-opt others through the backdoor. It does not matter even if they do not have voting rights because they would still be participating and influencing the board in those decisions. When you want expertise, then you hire experts or consultants that will do independent technical work that they present and leave but do not form part of debates in the board. That is my proposed amendment."
}