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    "id": 347076,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I stand to contribute on this Motion. I want to be on record that I am strongly opposed to some of these names; not all of them. I think it is known here that I am one of those people in this Parliament who does not believe that popular opinion is always the right opinion. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, when someone has served in the Civil Service for 40 years, there has to be a time to rest. These accolades we are saying that so- and-so did what, societies that believe that some individuals are indispensable always go wrong. No one of us in this world is indispensable; you have served for 40 years, you still want to serve another ten years, what about the other Kenyans? These people are going to have huge salaries that can be used to employ as many as 50 youths yet we keep on recycling old people. Even myself, when the time comes, I have to go. To say that, “So- and-so helped in restructuring Parliament” if he was not there would there not have been Parliament? These people have served their time and even if I belong to the minority, I am strongly opposed. It is not just this; we are creating artificial avenues for youth unemployment in Kenya. You find so many boards, the wife is a chair of a parastatal and the husband is a member of a board. In the 11th Parliament, we must surely bring laws that bar people from the same family holding appointing positions in Government at the same time."
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