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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shakeel",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for protecting me. The situation, as I said, is that when you look into all these problems, including Triton and others, surely, you know that there are some people who have shown those people who had ulterior motives how to defraud this country. If, however, the Minister in charge has some basic knowledge, he can sense certain signals. I want to bring to your attention one glaring factor. When the Permanent Secretaries are being reshuffled, there is another big problem. You have a gentleman who has been, for argument’s sake, a Director of Medical Services for a long time, and is moved to the Ministry in charge of women affairs. I want to talk about Dr. Nyikal. He was an excellent Director of Medical Services for many years. What, in God’s name, is he doing at the other Ministry? That in itself shows that we have no clear sense of the manning any Ministry. This sort of thing cannot continue. The Ministers need constant training just like Parliamentarians. We are not here to waste money. We do not want to go to Mombasa, or wherever, it can be done here. The School of Monetary Studies is here, and I think time has come that Ministers for critical Ministries must have certain qualifications to start off with. The systems of control, and for argument’s sake, we are really stuck; we have experts in this country. We have some experts in IT in this House, yet they are not involved. The Minister for Local Government and others have no idea what is going on. They cannot even involve other people. We have experts and so it is very good that the Minister in charge of communications is here, but we need expertise. Training is an essential element of life and I strongly support this proposal. I suggest that it takes, at least, six months and all appointed Ministers should take up their positions on a"
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