{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=144613","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=144611","results":[{"id":1464312,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1464312/?format=json","text_counter":193,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Seme, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity. I rise to support this. First, I appreciate the work that the Committee you chaired has done. But I want to make one point regarding that. It is good for us to get these reports early. The last time we got the report, the process was ongoing. It is the same case today. It is important for Hon. Members to get an opportunity to read the report. When we are vetting, we must be aware that the public is also vetting us, and they read these reports. Sometimes, they wonder if we are making comments that do not relate to the report. Despite that, your team did a good job, and you enjoyed vetting competent professionals. I looked at the report on Ms. Asukul. She has done community work. Being a County Executive Committee Member in charge of water, irrigation, and land reclamation in the area she comes from is a big achievement. I interacted with her during my work at ODM. As you know, ODM is a big, complex party, and for her to have worked so well is real competence. My advice to her is that when she goes to the East African community, she needs to create a community that we belong to and not countries that are bickering at each other. I wish to have a community like the one you and I knew as children. We knew we belonged to one community. Ms. Oduor is exemplary. She should have been the Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions long ago. Look at the international work she has done. The Harare Mutual Legal Assistance Scheme, evaluation..."},{"id":1464313,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1464313/?format=json","text_counter":194,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Haji."},{"id":1464314,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1464314/?format=json","text_counter":195,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mandera West, UDM","speaker_title":"Hon. Yusuf Adan","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity. I stand to support the Motion. From the point of view of national cohesion, integration, and equal opportunity, I now see some good light at the end of the tunnel. This is where we need to go. Kenyans are Kenyans regardless of the corner they come from. From an ASAL point of view, this will be a role model for all ASAL areas where our women are struggling to ensure they are included in leadership. So if she has done it, why not the others? She is a role model for ASAL areas. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1464315,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1464315/?format=json","text_counter":196,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mandera West, UDM","speaker_title":"Hon. Yusuf Adan","speaker":null,"content":"I interacted with and learnt of Ms. Dorcas during the last Parliament as a member of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee. I assure you in this House that that is a lady to look at. She is a performer and perfectionist."},{"id":1464316,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1464316/?format=json","text_counter":197,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Do not get carried away. There are no guys here. We only have Hon. Members."},{"id":1464317,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1464317/?format=json","text_counter":198,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Laughter)"},{"id":1464318,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1464318/?format=json","text_counter":199,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mandera West, UDM","speaker_title":"Hon. Yusuf Adan","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Members, I assure you she is a perfectionist and performs beyond reasonable doubt. Kenya is now heading in the right direction. As the Chairperson of the Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity, I am happy indeed. Thank you."},{"id":1464319,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1464319/?format=json","text_counter":200,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Opondo Kaluma."},{"id":1464320,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1464320/?format=json","text_counter":201,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Homa Bay Town, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Peter Kaluma","speaker":null,"content":" I thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thank His Excellency the President and the appointing authority for these nominations. I looked through the parliamentary approval process under the charge of your Committee, and I was delighted by the competence of these two ladies. Let me mention that this is the first time we have a female Attorney-General in the Republic of Kenya and the first from that side of the country. Let me add that these are not her only accolades. I served in the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee in my last two terms when Dorcas Oduor was the Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions. I remember that Mr Keriako Tobiko was the Principal Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions to Mr Noordin Haji, who was the director but is currently serving the nation elsewhere. We appreciate her devotion to duty. Hon. Speaker, let me thank the President for making it possible for us, as a country, to truly live the meaning of Article 232. This is one position nobody ever believed a person of Luo ethnic extraction would ever hold, just like the other one of Hon. John Mbadi. We are eternally grateful, and we wish her Godspeed when she serves the country in that sector."},{"id":1464321,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1464321/?format=json","text_counter":202,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Homa Bay Town, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Peter Kaluma","speaker":null,"content":"If I had time, I would have said more, but let me also congratulate our Turkana sister, a former member of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) National Elections Board, for the work she did well and for the work she will do for the country. I congratulate them and wish them well."}]}