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    "id": 339692,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do consider that Kenya, following the new Constitution has 47 counties. These have been scheduled as the operational basis from where I would consider regions. In making any appointment, we now look through all those counties and ensure that there is representation from as many as possible of the counties. Most importantly there is also gender and professional skills within the board. It is quite a balancing act to actually get the right people you need. Out of the four, if we remove the institutional office holder which is dependent on who is occupying that office at that point--- In terms of the four Board appointments and in this case in terms of the two Board appointments the priority was to ensure you have two people representing the skills that are required, that needed to be replaced; the finance and shipping skills. They also had to come from counties that are not represented in that Board. That is how we go these names. Indeed, it was unfortunate that for the people who retired we could not quite get a ready replacement. I had to talk to them and ask them if they were sure that was the right move. We could not get the right mix of the skill and gender to replace them. However, it is still something we are actively looking at to ensure that all counties are represented within the different boards."
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