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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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    "content": "The President has done very well in the last one year in terms of placing this country on the map of the world. The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic was in the country just yesterday. We either have senior officials or presidents of various countries regularly visiting our country. The ambassadorial nominees should remember that they must follow up after the President starts bilateral and multilateral relations. That speaks to deliverables. They should not just be called Ambassadors, High Commissioners or Permanent Representatives. If they are sent somewhere for four years, they should create jobs for our youth. We are dealing with issues of unemployment and a dynamic labour market in this country. Therefore, if you have served in one station for four years, you should be able to quantify how much business you have brought to the country, how many investors from the country you are stationed in are investing in our country, how many jobs they have created, and how many people you have assisted to get scholarships and be employed in that market. The nominees should handle those deliverables from the moment they arrive at their stations. Without taking much time, I support the Report. We thoroughly scrutinised these people. We had all the time to ask questions and scrutinise their documents. They had all been cleared by the statutory institutions that are required by our Constitution and other laws such as the HELB. They are not officials of political parties. As a Committee, we are confident that once these nominees are approved by this House, they will be the representatives we need to further our relations with the countries in their stations and other countries in the region. We are really struggling as a country to maintain hegemony in the region. Our hegemony is under threat. We should assert Kenya’s position in the region, the continent and the globe, as the President is doing. We hope that these nominees will back up the President’s efforts. I support the Motion."
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