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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to also contribute to this particular Bill. I stand to support the Bill but with some amendments, as I will state herein. This particular Bill can be considered as an implementation of the various parts of our Constitution that talk about values and equal sharing of resources of this country. This Bill introduces a requirement that every department should make a return on their employees: gender, age, country of birth, country of residence. But the drafter of this Bill forgot one important item that should also be included in the list: the percentage of each of the various categories that are to be reported. It is important that even as we talk about employment in this country, this is one area that has been misused by politicians to create conflicts among various communities in our country. We need to debate this issue very soberly. We talk about people being deployed, but we never look at the percentage of those people in the targeted areas. We look at the number of people deployed but we do not look at the overall number of those people in the country. Census results are now out. We know the proportion of our populations in this country by communities. When a community is populous, that number is to be reflected everywhere, including in the mortuary. If a community is populous, it will be populous even in the mortuary. For that reason, for people to debate the number of people of a community in a given department without considering the number of the community overall, in a county or in the country, then we miss the point. This is why I am saying we must debate this issue with sober minds and ensure that we do not buy into the politics of hatred, politics that has been used in the past to prove and show that some communities have been marginalised by way of disproportionate sharing of resources. Employment is one of the public resources subject to the various constitutional requires, including Article 10 on national values and Articles 202 and 203 on sharing of resources; the whole Chapter 12 is to be considered when it comes to deployment of employees. I have heard people say that in the past our community was considered for appointment to the Cabinet and now we are not, hence blaming the current Government. It is important for all of us to understand that we are dealing with 47 counties and more than 42 tribes. At no one time shall we have people from all these communities appointed as Cabinet Secretaries and chairmen of constitutional commissions. And for that reason, when you complain that your community is not represented in the Cabinet, go ahead and check whether your community is represented in the other various commissions. Check whether your community is represented at the level of Principal Secretaries or directors. That is when we shall make this a mature debate and not just picking an item. 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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