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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me also support this Motion that seeks the approval of the membership of the NCIC. This Commission was formed after 2007 and we all know its history. I restrict my contribution on the work that is awaiting this Commission or the commissioners. In terms of integrity and capacity of the commissioners, I know a few of them. For me, probably I would have looked at the regional spread. This is a Commission that is going to be responsible for ensuring that there is fairness in terms of placement and fairness in terms of offering services to the country. These are the people who are even supposed to critique where they find that even the allocation of resources in the country is skewed. They are supposed even to look at our budget and see how the budgetary allocations are spread and to indict Parliament, if it has not done a good job. Looking at the spread, I do know that the positions were not many and so you cannot get every ethnic community or every county in it. However, you should see some kind of proper regional spread. I will talk about a few of the proposed membership of this Commission which we are approving today. Hon. Dorcas Kedogo has been a very strong Member of Parliament and a very loyal Member of my party. I know her. I believe that given a chance, she will do a good job in this Commission. I also would want to talk about Rev. Kobia. Definitely, this is someone that the people of Kenya have idea of who he is. Giving him the chairperson’s position, I just trust and hope that he will do a good job. I want to talk about Hon. (Eng.) Philip Okundi. He has served in many capacities. What I can remember is that he was working as the head of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA). During that time, Eng. Okundi offered good service and when he came to communications, he again offered excellent service. He served the people of the former Rangwe Constituency, which are currently both Rangwe and Homa Bay Town constituencies. He is someone I know. He is very The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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