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    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am happy that you have protected me from the wrath of Hon. Kwenya. Maybe, one of the nominees who was dismissed is from his village and he is seeking a new job through an ambassadorial appointment. The House should look into this matter in the next appointments. If you were a Cabinet Secretary and you are reassigned to become an ambassador, that is fine. It is a fact that you have been relieved of your duties. I am sure the one Hon. Kwenya is alluding to is a Cabinet Secretary who barely served for three months. Why should you be relieved of your duties within barely three months of being appointed? If it is not out of incompetence, what else can it be? If it is on health grounds, then you should not be assigned another job. You should stay at home. Why am I saying so? I want competent Kenyans who are career diplomats to get space, so that they can serve this country at the apex of ambassadorial work. As it has been said by the Chairman of the Committee himself, foreign service is a calling. It is a very important job that cannot be done by anyone because it requires certain skills. Hon. Speaker, you nurtured many people when you were the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs. One of the things I admire about you is your diplomatic credentials. I am being honest because we have fought here many times. You tell me that in our mother tongue it isdeji meaning, calm down. This job requires special skills. If you could not run a ministry, what skills have you acquired within the last two weeks so that you can deal with foreign embassies? This job must be taken seriously. Most importantly, before somebody is given the job of an ambassador, the Executive should do due diligence. You cannot give somebody a job and when she is told to appear before a Committee she says she is not interested in the job. There are many Kenyans who want that job. Surely, why should you be guessing whether a person wants it or not? A former Cabinet Secretary was proposed to Parliament for vetting as an ambassador to Ghana and declined. This is the second time someone has declined going to Ghana. Initially, a former Member of Parliament declined. Now, a former Cabinet Secretary has declined. Why should we beg people to take jobs? Many Kenyans are jobless and have the requisite qualifications to serve this country in Ghana. It is the headquarters of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). We need to have a very important person there and not jokers who do not want the job. We are the ones sending experts to Ghana. If there are no experts on the other side, they should tell us. We shall give them experts to send to Ghana under the broad-based arrangement. We have experts who can work in Ghana. If you give me 10 minutes, I will produce one under the exchange programme of experts in the broad-based Government."
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