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    "id": 350047,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/350047/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Magerer",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Energy",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Magerer Kiprono Langat",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this very important debate. I want to say that this behaviour of subjecting personalities to an interview, rating them and then coming back to say that they do not qualify because of things other than what the interview looked for is not acceptable. I want to thank this House for setting a good precedent that if you go through an interview and pass it you qualify to get the position. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of integrity should have been sorted out way before these candidates were cleared to sit for this interview. I want to say the role of the TSC in the education system of our country is really very important. I want to really plead that we have men and women of integrity who deserve the opportunity to serve in this Commissions. When I look at the list in general, and the amendment that has been passed a few minutes ago by this House, I believe that the Parliament of Kenya has lived up to expectations. I urge strongly that Mrs. Lydia Nzomo, who scored highly in terms of merit, should actually be given the opportunity to chair this commission. I am a man, but do not belong to the group of male chauvinists who still believe that women may not be able to deliver as well as, probably, their fellow men. If women have qualified for these opportunities, let us not go round just to try and deny them the obvious. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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