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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana MGH",
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    "content": "nomination and the vetting process. My colleagues have also mentioned that, but I hope the other Motion will be brought back. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there was a Secretary for Transportation in President Obama’s first administration. He was called Ray LaHood. He resigned from Obama’s administration at some point because he wanted to pursue more lucrative opportunities outside the Government. So, we need to have honest people; people who will say that, ‘up to here, I have children going to the university and I need to earn more money. I do not want to do this job, I want to go and look for money outside.’ Let us have that level of honesty. That man was a Republican and President Obama was a Democrat. He was a cabinet nominee of a Democrat President, but he was a Republican. That did not mean that the Republicans and the Democrats had all of a sudden merged and were forming a government. Kenyans must start accepting that if we adopted the USA system, all these nominees are coming as individuals. We are not merging political parties. In fact, it would be very untidy to have that kind of a situation. Many of the Secretaries of State in the USA - and it is the system that we are copying here - have served in different administrations and worked with different presidents. They belonged to different political parties and it did not matter. When the President is picking his Judges, the Military Defence Council or even his Cabinet, he is acting as the Head of State. He is acting like the person who is supposed to be in charge of this country everywhere. When we are appointing Judges or the Chief of the Defence Forces, we do not ask which political party you belong to. People must start accepting that the Cabinet now in Kenya is just like the military council or the commissions that we are appointing here; we do not ask people which political parties they belong to. We must start accepting that people from different political persuasions will serve in the Cabinet because in Kenya, that is how it is. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my prayer is that as you go into this job, Dr. Patrick Amoth, may you do it as a Kenyan and may you come out full force to be heard. May the people of Tana River County also know you. I am also booking you on the Floor of this Senate to come and visit, so that you see what is happening, as you advise the Cabinet Secretary for Health, and the national Government. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support the report."
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