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    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Ntutu",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Keturet Ole Ntutu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to join my colleagues in, first of all, congratulating the President for nominating those Kenyans. I think this is the biggest number of ambassadors who have been nominated. I want to say that when you look at the report of this Committee, they have done a very good job. I am not a member of this committee, but I had a chance to watch the vetting when they were interviewing the ambassadors to be. I must say that those are good Kenyans and we must give them the opportunity to serve this country. When you look at most of them, they have already served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, except a few politicians who have been nominated as well. I must say that most of them are people who have been working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Therefore, when you look at the list, this time around the President has done a wonderful job by making sure that this country is balanced regionally. I am happy to hear from the other side of the political divide that this time round, they are not complaining about having not been taken care of, except that I have not got one from Narok. I bet the President will give us a chance next time. But because most of those nominees are good Kenyans, I want to say that I support their nomination. I want to tell my colleagues that this issue of hon. Members, particularly members of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations that their report must be supported--- If you sit in that Committee and you have not defended the Report, why do you come to this House again and “sort of” get some airtime to be covered by television? We are not trying to look for votes. You are already a Member of Parliament and it is just a matter of being honest to yourself and to the people you represent in this august House. Hon. Speaker, I have seen this happen. Even though I did not like the issue of some typing errors made by our clerks; I think this time around – I hope you are listening to me. The Clerks must be very careful when bringing documents to this House. This is a House that we must respect. The only way we can respect it is when we bring our documents to this House. They must be documents that are error-proof. Hon. Speaker, I also want to encourage other hon. Members of this Committee to respect this House because if we do not respect this House--- I have seen some hon. Members of Parliament and I am not afraid to say that they are fond of playing with the Speaker. I want the Speaker to take very serious steps on some of those hon. Members. Most of us have sat down here for years and we respect you as our Speaker. But you have given a lot of freedom to some of those hon. Members who are playing with us in this House."
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