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    "id": 174447,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute. Just to clarify, I am one of the four professional Assistant Ministers. Mr. Githae is one of the others, but I am not making a case for myself. Mr. Speaker, Sir, yesterday we made comments on the list that was presented to us, and we argued correctly that when you talk about Ministers not dominating the list, we are not saying that they cannot do a good job: It is just that they are busy doing other things which we appreciate. It is high time we gave others an opportunity to also contribute to nation building. Secondly, we also spoke about trying to avoid including people who have been known to take extreme positions; I think this is an important point. The Constitution-making process was impossible in the last Parliament, because there were people who had just decided that this is the way it has to go. Those were the hardliners that Mr. Githae has spoken about. These kind of people, from what we have found, whether it is in party politics or Constitution-making are not good for our country at a time when we are talking more and more about consensus building. We need people who can build consensus and bring this country together, especially at this difficult time. Thirdly, Mr. Githae spoke about fresh blood, but I would like to add that because this 27- member team is going to be involved in identifying nine people competitively who will be commissioners, it must also be competitive in their qualifications. In other words, we need to get people who are not only fresh, but also people who have not been associated with a scandal."
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