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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogari",
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        "legal_name": "Simon Ogari Arama",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I would like to urge my colleagues, Members of this hon. House, to adopt the Committee’s Report. However, I wish to give a few highlights on these two noble gentlemen of this country. The Chairman of the Committee has aptly stated that we were all unanimous in our support for these two gentlemen: Mr. Joseph William Nduva Muli for the position of Principal Secretary for Transport, and Eng. Joseph Kipng’etich Mosonik for the position of Principal Secretary for Infrastructure. We have the details of these two gentlemen. I would like to commend those who have been involved before us, including the President for undertaking wonderful shopping. I do not think those who were involved would have done better. We have recommended them to be appointed in the respective areas. About Mr. Muli Nduva, he has satisfactory and relevant academic qualifications. His work experience is immense. He has worked with the Kenya Railways, which falls under the Ministry he has been nominated to serve. He has worked in the private sector basically in clearing and forwarding subsector. He has also worked with AMREF and Kenya Airways. He knows a lot of technology because he has been accredited to developing e-business and strategies for the KQ and AMREF. He has not exactly turned around Kenya Railways, but we know that it was headed towards the general ward. Now that he is set to get a higher rank as Principal Secretary in the Ministry, we believe he will have better medicine for Kenya Railways. We received two memoranda. Normally you would expect memoranda to be malicious and full of attacks against a nominee. We received a memorandum from former Kenya Railways employees. We were surprised that instead of Mr. Muli getting annoyed with these allegations he actually was sympathetic to the people who swore the affidavit. He stated categorically that, that was one of the reasons he applied for this job. The memorandum was from former employees of Kenya Railways, and it was to do with their retirement benefits. He stated that this was a different scheme from what he has been administering and he had no mandate, as the MD of Kenya Railways to address their grievances. However, as a Principal Secretary this matter will fall under him. He sympathizes with these people and he believes that once he becomes Principal Secretary, he will work on the matter. The other memorandum was from a Mr. Charles Okumu. He raised land issues in Land Mawe. However, Mr. Muli was not directly involved because this issue fell under the early retirement benefits scheme management. These allegations, at best, are frivolous and obviously in bad faith, if not personalized against Mr. Muli, who is innocent and had nothing to do with that scheme. Hon. Speaker, Sir, in the Tenth Parliament I had an opportunity to serve as a junior Minister in the Ministry of Transport. Personally, I am very aware of what ails that Ministry. We are happy as a Committee that even before he came before us he had asked to be given a chance to address the major issues ailing the Ministry. We are aware that problems in transport, particularly as part of infrastructure, are a major issue that we have to address."
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