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    "id": 975898,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/975898/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13441,
        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": "I have seen it when we are coming to approve nominees for the various commissions. I have heard people complain that their communities are not included in that particular commission. We have many commissions in this country. Have you checked to see whether your community is represented in a different commission? When we talk about equality it is important to understand that it must be discussed in total and not just one item that you bring in as a particular interest. When we talk about equity, we talk about it in employment and deployment of resources that we have. We know that among the areas we are floating this particular constitutional requirement is on NG_CDF itself where we have some constituencies which are represented or have less than 50,000 people being given the same amount of money with constituencies that have over 200,000 people. So, for this debate to be complete we must look at it in total and this is where we now invite serious debate even through the BBI. I feel like we are now discussing the real BBI in this particular House today. This area needs to be looked at and not in a way likely to address marginalisation in some areas and marginalise others in terms of population. This is where you would want to punish certain communities by not letting them get employment opportunities and neither should they be given an equal share of the resource simply because they are not populous."
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