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    "speaker_name": "Eng. Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you as I rise to support this Motion for Adjournment. I want to congratulate the Parliamentary Service Commission for the job they have done of giving us two new Clerks for the two Houses of Parliament. In this appointment, we have got two gentlemen with outstanding public service careers and this is commendable. As a person who believes in one Kenya one country, one nation and one people, I note with a lot of satisfaction that all the top four officials of Parliament are from different regions of the country. It is an emphatic statement on equality, and I think it is another feather in the cap of this Tenth Parliament. By promoting our own, we are trying to build confidence in our staff in Parliament. We are also telling them magnanimously that excellence pays. It is saddening for our country that as we make these major strides, we are still reading very depressing news of how Kenyans appointed to privileged public positions are daily abusing those positions. I must say that what we read in The Standard Newspaper today is very depressing where a chief executive officer of a parastatal can employ ten close relatives at the expense of other Kenyans. This is a matter that we should condemn. When somebody is entrusted with ensuring equitable employment as the head of human resource in a public institution and he chooses to employ two of her daughters, two of her nephews and two of her nieces, it is something that we, as leaders of this country, must condemn. I have run a private practice now for over 20 years, but I have never seen the need to even employ a close relative. When people like these take us back to where we have come, we must speak with one voice and say that, we, as Kenyans, want equality, equitability, but not inequality. I support."
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