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    "id": 194013,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for East African Community",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 279,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not even know which Ministry the Department of Adult Education falls under. This is what we want to end, so that we have some durability. We want to have institutional memory, so that if you are appointed a Minister, once you take office, you can know what was happening there, 20 years ago, or 15 years ago. You learn from that information. That is how we build institutions. We cannot build institutions when there is no permanency in anything. In Kenya, we play politics of making everything euphoric. Even the appointment of the Cabinet is euphoric and then we say we want to have durable institutions. How do you get durable institutions if there is no permanency in anything? A Minister serves for a few months. Even before he understands how his Ministry works, he is moved to another Ministry. He is not moved because he was not able to perform very well in that Ministry. He is not moved because his Ministry is not working very well. He is moved because of the politics of that time. Political considerations override everything else. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know that it is not possible to provide for a criteria of appointment in our laws, but, surely, sometimes, we wonder. We find a Ministry that is not performing at all and then we find the same Minister being returned to that Ministry. That happens in Ministries which drive our economy. We find the same people being returned to those Ministries despite the fact that nothing appears to change in those Ministries. Then you wonder what drives our Government. That is why we need these offices created. We need to put it in the law, so that we can move forward. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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