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    "id": 945075,
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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": "Hon. Korere has left, but she shocked me when she said the parties nominate women based on other considerations. That is very unfortunate. There could be some cases like that, but it is also wrong to scandalise all nominated Members of Parliament, including Hon. Korere who was in the 11th Parliament as a nominated MP. Then she comes out to say that we base nomination on other considerations. I hear sometimes people say that political parties nominate girlfriends of leaders. But in the National Assembly, I can speak for ODM. We have three nominated MPs here and I know why we nominated each one of them. There is a reason why we nominated Hon. Sossion to represent workers. We targeted the teachers. We wanted to show teachers that this is a party that accommodates them and that is why we nominated Hon. Sossion who is the Secretary-General of Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT). We nominated Jacqueline Oduol because she has been persistently and consistently promoting the women agenda in ODM. She has even sacrificed and uses her resources to promote gender issues. She has gone across the country to train our women. If you give such a person a slot, do you forget all the good qualities about her including her education and only want to see her gender and extraneous issues? We nominated Dennitah Ghati because she is a very strong lady who has been campaigning for ODM in a very difficult constituency in Kuria Region. We know Dennitah Ghati would not have needed nomination probably if she had not been involved in an accident. It is through nomination that we have Hon. Millie Odhiambo here today in Parliament. We need to respect nominated Members. There are also isolated cases of people who have not merited nomination, but we should not collectively say that those who are nominated do not merit nomination. Some seriously merit nominations. I wish we had more slots. We would nominate more. In fact, through nomination, we may get some quality that 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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