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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muriithi",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Industrialization",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 91,
        "legal_name": "Ndiritu Muriithi",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I did not know that there are some sacred cows; there are some people whose opinion must go unchallenged. I am rising to support a position. I am rising to debate this position; to seek to persuade my friends if they care to listen about justice because they seem to want to suggest to the entire universe that they are the only ones who know the truth. That cannot possibly be. There are many others in the world who have the truth. We all are entitled to our opinions and I am quite certain you are entitled to yours. The fact that one may be able to express that opinion in English, Luo, Kikuyu or Kiswahili does not make that opinion the truth. So, the very essence of interviewing persons is to establish, in the eyes of the interviewing panel, the person’s capability and their competence. So, if a panel interviews hundreds of people and finds a person ranking second and then uses some other criteria, not apparent to Kenyans, their elected representatives, it is sad. To suggest there are some other wise people; some other wise men in some black box who applied some criteria that found this specific candidate, for example, not meritorious, is it not the duty of this National Assembly to ask for the criteria that they used to exclude a Kenyan who attained a top position in a group of persons that had been interviewed? Is it not fair and just to ask that question? There used to be a time - I am quite certain that you stood at the forefront of fighting back that time - when people would be told: “ Imesemwa, these are orders from above!” People should not invoke some names of senior persons in this Republic, so that we reject this Report. We should be told reason for us to reject this and that candidate."
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