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    "id": 1510577,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, we are looking at the suitability of the nominee. Is he suitable for that job? Is he the right person? Does he have the right qualifications? Does he have the requisite papers to do the work? All those boxes were ticked by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. Any other business here is a side-show. You do not get employment in Kenya because of the community you belong to. You get it on merit. You get it because you are qualified and you can do it. You get it because you are the right person to do it. There were many applicants who applied for that job. There was a shortlist. There was a process that was followed. The job application was open to all Kenyans. Many of them applied. In the wisdom of the recruiting panel, they decided to shortlist and came up with his name. They sent it to the President who sent it to Parliament for vetting. This is the process of vetting. We are looking at the suitability of the person. He is suitable because from the Report of the Committee, it is very clear that he is a veteran investigator. It is somebody who has spent all his life investigating people and looking at corruption and criminal cases. Let us not derail that process. Let us not dismiss merit because of ethnic profiling and sensationalism. In this country, we know there are offices that were occupied before by people from the same community. Some of them came from the same villages, but nobody complained. People said they would do the job because they were qualified. We are interested in the qualification of the person, but not where he comes from. We can only have one CEO. If they were eight, then we could give every region one person. But that is just one office. It must be occupied by one person at a certain time for a period of six years. For those people who are opposing his approval because he testified against you within the course of his duty, that is the nature of the game. That is his work. There is nothing we can do about it. When we were dismissing the former Deputy President, Mr Abdi Ahmed Mohamud testified because he was the acting CEO of EACC. He had to do his job. Parliament requested him to come and give evidence. He did not come on his own volition. This is the Report of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. It is not mine, even though I am a member of the Committee. It is not the Report of any other Member here. The Committee was given the mandate to go and inquire about the suitability of the candidate. They unanimously agreed that, that is the right person. He is qualified. I do not want to create a trend here of profiling people and denying them jobs because I am worried for my child. After I leave office, my child might be brought here looking for a job and then you say this is Hon. Junet's son. He comes from a certain community. I do not represent my community. I am not interested in representing them. I will never do it. I am serving my third term. I have never been elected by my community. They will never elect me. I do not want them to elect me, unless I am running for presidency. When I run for presidency, they must elect me. That is a responsibility they must do. But when I want to be a member of parliament, governor or senator, I do not want their vote. I have other voters who are Christians,"
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