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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rarieda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Otiende Amollo",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Otiende Amollo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the fourth issue is the question of age. Every Kenyan has right to hold any position if they are qualified. However, this must be tampered with necessity and reality sometimes. I have calculated the age of seven of the eight proposed nominees, but in respect to Mr. Danfas Makori on Page 34, the Report does not capture his ethnicity or age. For all the others, it is captured. The seven nominees have a cumulative age of 392 years. I am sure we are all entitled to the opportunity, but 392 years… There is, at least, one nominee who is of a very tender age of 28 years, Ms. Peris Nyutu. However, the fairly advanced age of the others dilutes and completely whittles down that particular consideration. Committees must also consider that if we keep saying that we are a young nation, even from the census, and if the youth is defined as up to the age of 35 years, we need to give some due considerations to this. About the work of the Commission, I can tell you, and while many Members have berated the Commission, the Commission is bedeviled with many statutory and institutional difficulties. Having served in that Commission for five years, I can tell you that the first difficult is parallel organisations. The Commission is supposed to look at cohesion, but there is a different department in the Presidency which is established to look at cohesion and which is given a higher budgetary allocation, almost twice what the Commission is given. This means it is a way of negating the Commission. The Commission is bedeviled with the definitions in the Act. Their entire mandate is to try and ensure cohesion balance in employment and deal with hate speech."
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