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    "speaker_name": "Belgut, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Nelson Koech",
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    "content": "The nominee has held the following positions: Director of Public Prosecutions (March 2018 to date); Deputy Director of Counter Organised Crime at the NIS from June 2016 to 2017; Deputy Director of Administration in the Internal Division of the NIS from January 2015 to June 2016; Head of Somalia Stabilisation at the NIS from 2010 to 2013; Head of Countering Violent Extremism at NIS from 2009 to 2010; Head of Legal Department at the NIS from 2005 to 2009; Deputy Head of Legal Department at the NIS from 2000 to 2005; and, State Counsel with the Attorney-General’s Office from January to December 2000. If you look at his CV, and from unofficial records, if you talk to the people who work with the NIS, they find Mr. Noordin Haji as almost a natural fit. Number one is because he has worked with the NIS before, and number two, many a times, they have had a Director-General being moved from either the police or other security agencies, and for the first time they are having one of their own as the Director General of the NIS. Noordin Haji is going back there — if this House finds favour and approves him — not as a stranger, but as someone who has risen through the ranks in the NIS from a relatively junior office, to a very senior office by the time he left to become the Director of Public Prosecutions. It is notable that one of the questions that Hon. Members of my Committee asked Mr. Noordin Haji is if he finds all this favour because he is the son of the former Senator Yusuf Haji. He was extremely proud to say that he is a proud son of the former public service officer and the late Senator Yusuf Haji, because it was his father who instilled discipline in him. This is something we should borrow as Members. That, Hon. Speaker, you would like to have your son being the Speaker of this National Assembly one day because you were one of the greatest Speakers that served in this 13th Parliament. That tomorrow the son or the daughter of my friend Junet Mohamed can come to this House as a Member of Parliament because of the good deeds that we do in society. It is because of that fact and the discipline that he got from his father that he has found favour in some of the offices that he has walked into. But that does not withstand the fact that he is equally a very hardworking person and an extremely humble fellow. Hon. Speaker, the nominee has never been charged in a court of law in the past three years, a requirement under the Schedule to the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act."
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