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    "id": 1197432,
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    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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    "content": "Aisha Jumwa and Hon. Mithika Linturi have not been tried by any court of law. You cannot verify the veracity of the charges. You cannot hold them on different levels of integrity like you hold others. Any recommendation based on either guilt or perceived guilt on Hon. Aisha Jumwa or Hon. Mithika Linturi for me is misguided. As I conclude, I want to request this House that in my 10 or 11 years in Parliament, what I have seen distinguishing a CS is how they understand the Members and country’s needs, and not the papers they have. In the past, if you look at the first Cabinet in 1963, only a few of them had degrees or had hardly worked anywhere, yet, they did so well. So, it will be a big miss for this Assembly to keep harping on about papers that, ‘This one has papers and that one does not,’ without looking at their ability. We know some people who have served this country so well, because of the passion they have for the job. Hon. Michuki, may the Lord rest his soul in peace, did so well as a Minister for Transport. I do not think he was an engineer or anything, yet he did so well in that ministry that the whole country was saying ‘bring him back’. What we, as an Assembly, must do is to ensure that after passing these nominees, we put them to task. I am so happy that we have a President who is so sober and ready to work. These CSs, I am sure in the next one or two years, will be gasping for air. Let us put them to task to work for the country. The country is waiting with bated breath, we cannot wait any longer. Let us approve these guys to start working. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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