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    "id": 151713,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/151713/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Eseli",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "It is difficult for them to lead this because of that lack of empowerment to be good financial and resource managers. Resources here even go up to human resources management. We all know the qualifications for coming to Parliament; you need to be fluent in Kiswahili and English languages. Therefore, when Cabinet is selected from amongst us, those qualifications are carried on to the Cabinet. So, we need to build the capacity of this select few, so that they are able to deliver the services and reforms that Kenyans have been yearning for. It is important that we actually empower them because many times, chief officers and civil servants who have the knowledge run rings around the Ministers. This has been part of the reason we have not been able to stamp out corruption. Many at times, Ministers have appended their signatures committing the Kenyan taxpayer to pay loans that have not actually assisted us. But chances are that whoever appended the signature actually had no idea of the implications of that signature."
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