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    "id": 256927,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/256927/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kenyatta",
    "speaker_title": "The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta",
        "slug": "uhuru-kenyatta"
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    "content": " Thank you for this opportunity to contribute to this particular Motion. I would like, first and foremost, to congratulate the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs for the speed at which they have been working since they were reconstituted. It shows that we have missed a lot of things that would have happened earlier had this Committee been in place. I want to congratulate them for that. However, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the contents of this particular Report is not what I can support. It is very clear even when you go through the Report on every nominee that there is basically nothing but praise of the qualifications of all the people they interviewed. There is nowhere they have cited a single issue that questions the integrity of the persons. There is nowhere they have questioned the ability of the persons. There is nowhere they have questioned the commitment of these particular individuals. The only thing it says is that they lack passion. Passion can only be determined once somebody has been given a job to do and the results are out. That is the only time when one can demonstrate passion. Interest was demonstrated when they applied for the job. If they had no interest, they would never have applied for these jobs. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my good friend, hon. Abdikadir, mentioned something which I think I need to bring again to this Floor. He spoke on a point of order when an issue was raised that there were others who were, indeed, more qualified. Indeed, that could possibly have been the case. However, I want to remind this House, that recently, we approved the name of the Controller of Budget. It is very well known that the person who was number one was not the one who was chosen. In fact, the person who was chosen was number four or five. The person who was number one was Mr. John Njiraini. That would have been the name that this House would have approved had it been that the issue---"
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