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    "id": 366824,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Anyango",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me the opportunity to support this Motion. I am very happy with the appointees. They are excellent executives whom we know will perform. But in two minutes, I want to make one statement. There are a number of square pegs in round holes in the whole set of 26 proposals. The President has given us excellent proposals but then he has picked some people from their waters and taken them over, assuming that they will be equally effective. That means that he is treating those other areas as training grounds, maybe, for six months or one year, when the term is only four years to the end. Somebody like Dr. Songa, a very competent officer who breaths agriculture, is sent to the industrialization docket! He has to go through a learning process. Somebody like Eng. Magiti, engineering and water, is taken to planning. Those are difficult professional areas. I wonder why that was done to some of those officers. Dr. Mohamed has been sent to tourism, when that is an officer we have known has a passion for the health sector. He came up with some ideas on how to approach reforms in that particular sector. You throw him out to tourism, commerce and other things. It appears to me to be a waste. When you place somebody like Kamau Thugge in the Treasury, we know we have somebody who will hit the ground running and the reform measures that are required in that docket will continue uninterrupted. He does not have to wait to attend conferences to grasp what is going on internationally in that particular area. So, other than about 30 per cent of square pegs in round holes, I support most of these appointments."
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