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    "id": 104584,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/104584/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Unfortunately, Kenya does not have a mission in Turkey. We have recommended that the Kenya Government, as a matter of national interest, opens a mission in Turkey because in todayâs world, diplomacy is economically driven. We have over 52 missions and some of the missions ought to have been closed long time ago. Turkey has had a mission diplomatic representation in Kenya for the last over 20 years and the commercial engagement between Kenya and Turkey, is overwhelming. Therefore, it is the high time that the Ministry of foreign Affairs opened a mission in Turkey. There has been the issue of whether the Government of Kenya should retain the services of attaches. In this particular case, there is administrative, cultural and jurisdictional conflict and challenges between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a number of other Ministries, in particular the Ministry of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons, the Ministry of Higher Education Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Trade, the Ministry of Livestock Development and the Ministry of Agriculture. These different Ministries have the same coalition. If we have a letter from one Ministry going to a particular mission, recalling a particular officer and the next month, you have another letter from the same Government but from a different Ministry asking the same officer to stay, we are negating the essence of having diplomatic representation. Diplomatic representation is meant to serve, first of all, the diplomatic community other than that country of accreditation, and the treatment of that country in the Diaspora and the Kenya foreign service group. The essence of appointing diplomats is to reflect a good image of that particular Government. The catch words are âto protect, promote and project a good image of that particular countryâ. This issue of conflict on attaches is something that ought to be sorted out at the Cabinet level. We do not have to punish the junior officers in the mission because those people have been posted there by a Government, whether this Government agrees or does not agree. I want to plead with the Minister for Foreign Affairs to be proactive and ensure that this issue of attaches is sorted out once and for all. Two weeks ago, the Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons went public and complained. Two months ago, the Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology complained. This issue needs to be sorted out and I want to repeat it is negating the essence of having diplomatic representation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in a mission like London, there is a letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs asking the commercial attache to come back. In the same breath, the parent Ministry has written to the same officer asking him to stay. These people are in the same Government and they are serving in the same mission. Which order do you obey? One is from a Minister, a PS and another one is from a Minister from a different Ministry. The same applies to the Agricultural, education and Livestock attachĂŠs. I plead that this issue be sorted out once and for all. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with due respect to my colleague hon. Wetangula, requires serious radical surgery in terms of its administrative functions, activities and operations. It is the only Ministry where you find a junior officer in the cadre of Job Group âJâ defying instructions of none other than the Accounting Officer. If you go through some of the letters, the correspondence between senior officers at the Ministry headquarters and some of the staff in some of our missions, you will really wonder whether that Ministry exists. These are administrative issues but they are challenging. In London where went, it is supposed to be the epiccentre of our diplomatic representation. Our representation in London has been reduced to a laughing stock within the diplomatic community. None other than the Minister posted one officer as a consular called"
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