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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Report of the Committee and to congratulate the nominees, first of all, for being nominated and for getting this far in terms of vetting. I want to make a few remarks, perhaps, not related to any specific individual. I know some of the things that happen within the diplomatic world from my rather long time within Government and interacting with diplomats, not just from Kenya, but from other countries. One of the issues that the Committee might want to look at is that, this is the second time we are getting a batch of ambassadors and high commissioners. Even the debate around Sarah Serem is almost being taken as “good riddance” rather than appointment on merit. It is not just her. For some of the other appointees who were in the Cabinet, even the media was very clear that they had been dropped and are now being shipped away to become ambassadors. When that happens, the first thing that happens is that our ambassadors lose credibility within diplomatic circles. Their fellow ambassadors look at them as rejects in their own country. They look at them as people who have been taken there as “good riddance” and we lose on the representation and the value we are sending those people for. I urge this House that even as we look at this, let us not pass the message to the rest of the world that we are taking people out of Kenya because we do not want them here. When they represent us in those countries, they will 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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