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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to put my word of support to the appointment of Ms. Anne Njoki Wang’ombe. First, I want to thank the Departmental Committee of Administration and Internal Security for doing the very good work of vetting her within a very short time. I have listened to the views of my good friend, Hon. Sarah Korere, who avers that she was first nominated to serve in this House by His Excellency the President. She appreciates that the President is keen on having balanced appointments in his Government. However, balancing should not just be in terms of minority and majority. It is also possible to marginalise the majority in the country because of perceptions. Nobody knows better than Hon. Sarah Korere that President William Samoei Ruto has been keen to balance his appointments in terms of gender parity in order to ensure that there are enough of either gender represented in his Government. I do not support this in terms of gender parity. Ms Anne Wang’ombe is a lady who is well learned. She also comes from a community that risks being sidelined in key appointments on the basis of being the majority in the country. It has been argued that when you are a majority in an institution, when people die it just happens that the majority will have a majority amongst those who are dying. We must not profile people on the basis of their ethnicity. Let us judge Ms Anne Wang’ombe not on the basis of her ethnicity or where she comes from, but on the content that she has to offer to the Government. I want to speak to Anne Wang’ombe. She is being appointed to serve in a very important docket - Office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary, where she will serve in the Office of Performance Management and Delivery Services. During the previous regime, this is the docket where the Presidential Delivery Unit (PDU) was domiciled. It is such a key anchor of the success of any administration. Therefore, Ms. Anne Wang’ombe must come into the Government and, quickly, learn the nine value chains that the President and his administration have given priority. She will have to apprise herself on those value chains, apprise herself on the Appropriation Bill that the Budget and Appropriations Committee sanctioned in its Report, which this House approved. It is what we have appropriated here that her State Department must follow up - to ensure that projects are delivered on time with value for money being realised for the people of Kenya. She has a very important role in the Government. I want to plead with her to, quickly, apprise herself. Let her understand the priority areas of our appropriations in terms of the nine value chains that we spoke about during debate on the Appropriations Bill. In his bottom-up economic transformation agenda, the President has set out nine value chains to spur our country’s growth to greater heights of development. I remember when William Ruto was setting up his Government, he said he would not speak about corruption but he would act on corruption in Government. I am happy with his first steps. Any public officer who will be mentioned negatively in terms of integrity will be relinquished of their duties. I want to ask Ms Anne Wang’ombe that she has a role to play to ensure that the Government wins the war against corruption. Corruption begins with the implementation of projects, and more so through the procurement processes in the course of 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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