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    "id": 944856,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sigor, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Lochakapong",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. At the outset, I support the Bill as has been supported by my colleagues. The Representation of Special Interest Groups Laws (Amendment) Bill is good idea and it has come at the right time. We are talking about women, persons with disabilities, youth and minorities. The marginalised need to be represented. I know in certain quarters people will say that they have already been taken care of elsewhere. We need to bring the idea of marginalised groups so that they are also represented here. The challenge is the identification of representatives by the parties. It would be important that we have a clear way of identifying how marginalised and special interest groups can be identified so that they get to represent their groups in a House like this one. Many times, the minorities and the marginalised are left out. I have in mind people like the Sengwer in West Pokot and the Elmolo around Turkana. Being minority in nature, their voices are not heard and, therefore, they do not find their way here. A deliberate effort should be made through this Bill so that the right people, who actually deserve to be called special interest groups and probably have no connection to the bigwigs, get identified so that they can find their way to this House to represent their people. We have already seen that those who are representing special interest groups here are doing a good job. A good example is Nominated Member No. 001. He is doing a good job. He was properly identified. That is why he has the passion to talk on behalf of people with disabilities, which is quite good. As for the nomination lists, we are saying that a third of either gender should be in this list. How do we identify them? That is where the issue should be. We do not want to have situations where people identify their friends and cronies and put them on the nomination lists. Where the rubber will meet the road is when this Bill will be operationalised as envisaged. The"
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