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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwakuwona",
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        "legal_name": "Danson Mwashako Mwakuwona",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support the Motion on approval of Prof. Hamadi Boga as the Principal Secretary for State Departmnet for Agricultural Research. As I mention a few things about the professor, I thank the President for nominating him. I know the professor personally. He is the first Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Taita Taveta University. I want to submit to this House that Prof. Hamadi Boga is a scholar who has had a 10- year stint at Taita Taveta University and has proven to be a 21st Century leader. This university started at a time when the former President Kibaki gave opportunity for regional universities to come up. Indeed, Prof. Boga was given that opportunity and he did not disappoint, particularly the people of Taita Taveta County. Today, the university has many campuses around. When it started, people thought that Prof. Boga did not know what he was doing. I want to submit to this House that he opened a campus at a place called Ngerenyi in Mwatate Constituency, which focuses on agricultural research. His appointment to head the State Department for Agricultural Research is one of those things which give my heart a lot of joy and the people from coast region as well. I want to submit to this House that we have very few professors from the coast region. So, when we get a learned fellow like Prof. Hamadi Boga, we want to see him excel in everything he does. Three weeks ago, the university signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the University of Helsinki from Finland. The MOU was on research on climate change and issues that will affect agriculture in the future. Prof. Boga will be one of the Principal Secretaries who will move this country to the next level."
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