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    "id": 490293,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, for now, in our foreign policy, we are focusing on economic diplomacy. When you talk about economic diplomacy, you are looking at the issues of trade. We asked some nominees issues about the trade balance and they did not even know what trade balance is and those are the people who are going to represent His Excellency the President in foreign countries. Hon. Speaker, we are passing this list with a lot of reservations because some could not measure to the threshold and my colleagues who are from the Committee will agree with me. Others said we are embarrassing the President. It is not an issue of embarrassing the President. It is helping him so that he cannot be embarrassed in the foreign countries by ensuring the right people are the ones who are going to represent him in those foreign countries. Hon. Speaker, we had also cases where somebody could not speak English but you are told that in the country the person is going, they do not speak English. They speak Arabic which he speaks. However, in this case, we have bilateral agreements. Maybe, they are drafted in English and not in Arabic and in this case, it is, indeed, important that when we debate this, it is not an issue of tribe, academic credentials or coalitions. It is an issue of Kenya as a country. Hon. Speaker, when we separated them, there was a lot of lobbying but I come here half-heartedly---"
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