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    "id": 293271,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this Report by the Committee. Let me take this early opportunity to congratulate the ladies and gentlemen who have been appointed and given this opportunity at this time of our transition of our country from the centralized to central plus devolved systems of Government. They have this unique responsibilty of linking where we are with where we want to go. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I am doing that I note that all these ladies and gentlemen responded to an advert. They went through a very thorough interview process. They also went through a very thorough vetting process by the Committee and their names have been brought to this House. For people who have gone through that, it would be very unfortunate for us to then think of them as being products of cronyism as hon. Martha Karua seemed to suggest. I will not water down the efforts that have been put in by the candidates themelves; the efforts that have been put by the Committee itself; the effort being put by this House to actually bring out the men and women who we believe we will give this opportunity to move us because when we do these things we tend to create a sense of doubt as to whether these people were right for the job or were brought in for political expediency. I would like to confirm that these people took themselves onto the interview panels, have made it this far and we should be congratulating them for being daring enough to have gone through those processes. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, having said that---"
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