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    "id": 464747,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, the Constitution is very clear that any appointments must reflect the face of Kenya. The face of Kenya is not just the tribe. There are people with disabilities and so forth. Names of people with disabilities were presented to the President. They never appeared in this list and that is discriminatory. That is why we support this report. We cannot fit, as you rightly put it, all the tribes of Kenya in these slots. However, we have seen in the recent past that appointments have been concentrated on very few communities and yet we have 42 communities in this country. We have to make sure that every region of this country is represented in this Government. This is our Government and not any party’s Government. It is all the Government of Kenya. Five out of six nominees are employees of the Ministry of Education. When you do mass transfers, what are you trying to prove? This Committee was observant. It checked those details and realized that they were transferring a problem from the Ministry to the TSC. We know the problems that we have had in the past. If all other Committees will be seen by Members of the National Assembly to be as objective as Sabina’s Committee, we will support them irrespective of the political divide. I am also urging my colleagues from the CORD side that further committee recommendations should be like these ones Sabina has presented. We will support the report fully. We support the President. We have seen of late that the President and the Prime Minister are working together and warming to each other. They are uniting this country. We do not want prophets of doom to come and sneak in things that will separate this country. We want a united nation. This we can only achieve by doing the right things. When you want to support a flawed vetting system and bring the results here because you want to help a colleague, we will oppose that and you will be an enemy of Kenyans. I support and second."
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