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    "id": 244830,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 326,
        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, therefore, I am saying that let this Parliament approve this Bill and let us ensure that this KNBS is properly managed. The management of the KNBS cannot be influenced by Ministers. There is a culture which has evolved in this country very fast whereby a Minister goes to head a Ministry and all of a sudden he changes the manpower in that Ministry by bringing in his tribesmen. When he is transferred his tribesmen are removed by the person who comes in. If he is dishing out projects he dishes to his constituency or tribesmen. That is why every Tom, Dick and Harry is now trying to run for the presidency of this country so that they can loot this country for their own constituencies and tribesmen. That is why you have got to consider the tribe of a person running for a national office. We must do away with that culture which does not consider professionalism; a culture which takes first and foremost ethnicity as a qualification for appointments. I hope hon. Obwocha will not follow some of his predecessors who had staffed that Ministry with their tribesmen all over. I beg Mr. Obwocha not to spoil the name of our community. Do not push everybody out because this is a very bad culture. It is a culture which can lead this country into chaos. For example, here is a young man or woman who is qualified and has gotten a job and he or she is removed immediately the boss who was there and who happened to have been from his or her ethnic group is removed. Such a culture can also make people not to make decisions because they will fear that if I remove this person who is not performing I might be seen to be trying to remove him or her because of his or her ethnicity. So, we must move away from the culture of nepotism, ethnicity and unprofessionalism. We can only do that if we have proper information in the KNBS. With those few remarks, I would like to support."
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