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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Timothy Wanyonyi Wetangula",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I am equally a Member of this House. So, when I am given a chance, there should be no murmurs. I wish to support this Report. I will pick up from where my colleague has left. People with disability have been discriminated against in Government appointments. Appointment after appointment, we are missing the opportunity to serve this country. I represent two constituencies in this House. My first constituency is Westlands. They are the people who elected me. My second constituency is the voiceless who are the people with disability. I am very proud of that. When I see us missing on Government appointments, we feel that some of the provisions in the Constitution are not being applied properly and that we are being discriminated. I would like to single out Amb. Mohammed Gelo. I had an opportunity to interact with him when he was serving in India. He is one very honest public servant. I am sure that he will add a lot of value to this country in his new assignment. This Government trains diplomats not only for our country, but also for other countries. However, when it comes to appointments, our leaders appoint their political cronies and sidekicks and leave competence and merit out of this. We need to observe that as we appoint people to go abroad and represent this country, we should appoint people who can represent us properly. They should be people who can articulate issues affecting this country, and not just be joy riders. Some of those ambassadors have been appointed because they have been done a favor. They go there and they just do their own things. They do not represent the interest of this country and, as a nation, we lose on that. We are spending a lot of money to support our foreign embassies. We would like those officers to add value and make sure that our country is benefitting from their presence in those countries. We need to look at the level of competence of the people who are being appointed. I support the appointment of some of those people. Prof. Sam Ongeri is an old man. We know he has served this country very well. However, there comes a time when we must say, “You have done enough. Let somebody else come in and take your chance.” We are not going to say that Prof. Sam Ongeri is incompetent. But there are equally able Kenyans who have been promised future leadership and the time is now. They are, however, still being promised to wait. We must live by the promise we made to the people at the time of elections. The Jubilee Government promised young Kenyans that it is a digital Government and that this is the time of the youth. When you look at this list, you realize that digital is just a lip service from the Government. I caution the Government that it should live by what it promised. It should also preach and live by what it preaches. Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving us a chance."
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