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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Katoo ole Metito",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Janet Marania Teyiaa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I was talking about the appointments of people to the positions I have mentioned of the high commissioners, ambassadors and other diplomatic and consular representatives. They are referred to in the Bill as Officers of the Foreign Service. I will highlight that later on. The Bill also provides for the establishment, the function and administration of the Foreign Service Academy. In the Bill, there is an academy called the Foreign Service Academy with its functions that will be highlighted. That is under Clauses 31 to 46. This Foreign Service Academy is charged with training and conducting other programmes in ensuring skills, capacity and professionalism of officers in the Foreign Service. This is an academy or an institution that will be tasked with training and doing capacity building of the officers who will serve in the Foreign Service. Its day-to-day affairs will be run by a director-general. The academy will be administered by a council. After the Bill was referred to the Committee to facilitate public participation, the Committee invited submission of memoranda through the print media. I would like to mention that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Industrialisation, Trade and Enterprise Development and the Kenya Law Reform Commission are the only ones that submitted their memoranda on how to enrich this Bill. Of course, the Office of the Attorney-General agreed with the Memoranda by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The proposals by those stakeholders were well received by the Committee. The Committee has considered and applied the submissions to enrich the Bill as shown in the Report that the Committee tabled last Thursday. Therefore, in the next stage of the Bill, as a Committee, we will be proposing amendments that will accommodate the views from the above stakeholders. Some of the amendments that we will be proposing were given to us by those stakeholders to bring clarity on the definitions of some of the officers who will be serving under the Service, like the so-called attachés. In the missions abroad, there are several attachés such as trade attachés, defence attachés, National Intelligence Service (NIS) attachés etcetera . So, some of the proposed amendments were to bring clarity of those attachés as opposed to other officers in the Service. Others are going to be amendments to clearly define the difference between career diplomat and others – the so-called political appointees. Others will be amendments to define what is called tour of duty for those who represent the country in our missions abroad. It will give the start and end dates of tour of duty and what happens in between or thereafter. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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