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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matayos, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Geoffrey Odanga",
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        "legal_name": "Geoffrey Makokha Odanga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also want to state from the beginning that I support the Motion as laid before Parliament by the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research. Vetting is different from interviewing and when names of nominees are brought to the Committee for vetting, you are just required to confirm what has been brought from the nominating office. I want to confirm that we did that. There were quite a number of qualified Kenyans who would have been nominated as commissioners but we just had to get the few that we need for the time being and to have the face of Kenya and diversity. Diversity has been a problem in the last few years and you will remember that I had to lament on the Floor of this House because the Commission did not have enough commissioners. We really wished that the CEO started the process of nominating commissioners some few months before the lapse of the existing ones so that we do not have gaps existing as it has been before. This makes the services of the Commission to the teachers to lack the qualities that it requires. We are happy that we have at least moved to this level. I know Dr. Anyang because he comes from Busia. I even went to school with him. He was a year ahead of me. He went to the seminary and thereafter joined me at Nambale Boys High School. He is very humble, articulate, effective and fair. He is someone that can be relied on and that is why he has taken his time to grow to the level he is serving at the Ministry. I have also known Annceta for the last two terms that I have served in Parliament because she served in the Departmental Committee on Education and Research. She is a very diligent worker. She is someone who can be relied on and I am sure she will help us get good services from the TSC. The other nominees also have a variety of qualifications like in Human Resource Management which is very critical because the TSC is about human management. Hon. Speaker, I do not want to belabour so much but to urge the House to approve the nominees as forwarded here by the TSC. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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