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    "id": 1030125,
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    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "The ethnic groupings in Kenya are 43 or 44. I do not know whether we would have taken a third of an ambassador so that we fit the 43 within the 16 positions? Certainly, that is not practical. We need to start thinking of evaluating the persons to establish if they are fit to represent Kenya where they will be sent. Can we be confident when we find, for example, Ambassador Martin Kimani, who I know has a Doctorate in Philosophy (PhD) in war studies, representing us in the UN Security Council? What else would you want from him? You have a fitness between his knowledge and where you are placing him. As the Speaker said, it is the country that is sending people. When they go out there and start stammering, people will look at them and ask where they came from, then the image of the country will go down. So, it is good we start looking at our best, profile them and take them out there. The other thing I am happy about is a trend that has come back. We said this last time when there was a set of appointments. Officers who have spent their time in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs find themselves being fit to leave the nation and work outside the country. Therefore, the time they spent in the Ministry is not lost. When somebody else comes in from the corporate world and becomes their boss, they will be forced to show them what to do because they spent all their time in Foreign Service. There is a silver lining in all these age groups. Ambassadors are entitled to funding of the education of their children. When you look at the age group of the nominees, not many of them are likely to be having children in primary and secondary schools. So, that is a great saving for Kenya. They have already educated their children. They are not going to incur heavy costs of maintaining their children in schools. These are people who will spend most of their time sorting issues of Kenya rather than running to pick their children from schools and how their children will transition, for example, from grade four in Kenya to fit in a different grading system. These are some of the things that we should perhaps celebrate. We have people who have exhausted their personal responsibilities and they are now committed to serving our country. For the youth, patience is a virtue. We seem to be having this issue of: “Let the people who we think are older than us...” We were also young at some point and we used to think the same. It is like, “Clear the pipeline and go” so that they can come up. The faster you come, the sooner you will also be exiting the stage. You will be pushed by others."
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