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    "speaker_name": "Belgut, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Nelson Koech",
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    "content": "Let me also use this opportunity to thank the Members of the Departmental Committee on Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations for foregoing their recess to do this noble job of vetting these ambassadors. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you will have to find time, I do not know when, for those Members to have their recess. They have worked tirelessly to make sure that we have this Report on the Floor of this House today. As I take over from the Leader of the Majority Party, I will be very brief. The ambassadors that have been nominated to various missions must live to their name. Recently, when the President visited the United States (US), you saw how Meg Whitman, the US ambassador to Kenya, pitched for our country as an investment destination. She did this so eloquently you would think she was our Kenyan ambassador to the US. Having said that, let our ambassadors put their best foot forward, brand and market our country as a tourist and investment destination in the globe. As they do so, in this country, we must ensure that investors are not harassed at our airports. Of interest, is the exit terminal at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), which Members have mentioned in their contributions. Visitors and travelers are being harassed and we have raised this matter with the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs and relevant agencies. There are overzealous and extremely corrupt employees of KRA at the exit terminal. I have sent their names to the relevant authorities so that our visitors and tourists are not harassed, their luggage unnecessarily handled by people checking for perfumes, littering the place with underwear, creating a lot of drama and traffic in our airports. As we look for investors, we must facilitate easy movement of people who are visiting this county as a destination for investment opportunities. With that … Hon. Osoro is harassing me! Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I beg to reply."
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