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    "id": 100682,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 190,
        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": "Fifthly, I have a quarrel, like some other Members of Parliament about the duration of the advertisement of five days. But I have learnt from the Minister and others who are familiar with the process of this recruitment that, in fact, this advertisement was posted on the website from January. So, although the actual physical advertisement in the newspapers was five days, those who were interested and are familiar with matters at the KAA - and I am sure people must have known because the issue about the renewal of the contract has been a subject of debate for the last four years - already had the opportunity to know and to respond to that advertisement. These days, if you are not IT complaint and you are not able to go to the website and follow advertisements and any other information, then I must say that you would be the wrong person for this kind of job. Finally, it is important to ask whether the person has the minimum qualifications. It is clear he has. I must say that I am lucky that I met him sometimes over another matter regarding an airport that is being built in Isiolo. He seems to be the kind of person that we would like for this kind of job. He is professionally qualified, articulate and he clearly knows what he is talking about when it comes to matters of the KAA. I would like to propose, therefore, that we get ahead with the business of confirming this Managing Director, but ask issues about amending the law to be similar to other laws related to the recruitment processes where we do not leave it to politicians to decide who has to occupy senior positions in this country. As it has been said before, the Constitution will take care of this. So, for the time being, because the law allows the Minister to do it as he did, we should just approve this, but insist that, in the future, or as soon as we are done with this matter, we amend the law accordingly. With those few remarks, I oppose."
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