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    "id": 1086054,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1086054/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwingi Central, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Mulyungi",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Mutemi Mulyungi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. I thank the Chair and his Committee for coming up with this innovative idea. Currently, appointment of foreign mission staff is not only haphazard but also very indiscriminate and political. This Bill will go a long way in not only regulating and streamlining appointments in Foreign Service but also in guiding the procedure of appointment, in creating fairness and equality and in rewarding competence and performance. The Bill provides for the duration and procedure of termination of service, so that one’s service cannot be terminated because somebody does not like their face. It also highlights the functions and duties of the appointees. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Bill also creates a foreign policy which was not clear before. From what I read, this policy will be highly publicised. It will be put in the Kenya Gazette, websites and dailies. The Bill will also create a training institution, the Foreign Service Academy to train diplomats because diplomacy is a profession. If a diplomat is not well trained, she or he can cause us embarrassment, hatred and worse of it, war. Training therefore is paramount and this Bill has done a good thing. We have seen a lot of infighting in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs necessitating transfer of Cabinet Secretaries or Principal Secretaries. This Bill now separates their roles to avoid conflict, infighting and promote harmonious working relationships to improve performance. Finally, and most importantly, the Bill provides for appointment of both career civil servants and politicians so that as I stand here, in the future if I lose my seat, I will still stand a possibility of being appointed as an ambassador thus getting another additional title of “His Excellency”. With those few remarks, I support. 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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