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    "id": 490415,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/490415/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tonui",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1242,
        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. I believe that by approving this list of nominees, we will be empowering the President to fulfill his mandate. The Kenyan people elected him to fulfill some certain functions and he needs people to assist him. Those ambassadors will assist in a great way. One area in which we will be relying on those ambassadors to assist us is in the area of marketing Kenyan products, especially Kenyan tea. In the place where I come from, we rely on tea. Once we approve those people, and I believe they are listening as we are talking on their approval, we want to send a clear message to them that they need to go outside there and market the various products from this country like tea. I am very sure that we are going to approve their nominations. So, I am simply giving them an assignment because currently, the people I represent – the farmers of Bomet Central – are really suffering because of tea prices. So, that is a clear message which they need to have as they go outside there. Hon. Speaker, I think coming from an educational background, it is simply unfortunate that none of the teachers was captured. But I believe those education attachees will surely get some jobs and they will pick the teachers right from schools. I also believe that the work which was done by this Committee was nothing but the best. They vetted those people and I believe they are people of high integrity. Those are people who will be able to serve us with the highest degree possible. I know one of the nominees, Joseph Magut. I schooled with him at Kenyatta University (KU). He was one of the student leaders and he performed highly. So, I believe he really deserves this position. There is the issue of Chelimo. I was listening over the radio as she was being vetted and people were saying she requires to be married in order to be validated and she answered it very well. I believe that is the best nominee in this list and I am very sure she is going to perform where she will be. I think she is the only youth that we have in this list. I would have wished that we should have increased the number of youths so that we have more of role models in this list. However, there is the next list of appointment which I believe is going to capture the youth. Hon. Speaker, I also want to support this because it has a national outlook - although one of the Members has complained about Kuria. Remember we have 42 communities in this country and we cannot capture all of them in one single appointment. I believe they will be in the next list so that we have a national outlook and I wish that in the next list, someone from Bomet Central will also be captured. Nobody from Bomet Central is in this list. I hope in the next round, someone from Bomet will be captured because we have people who are highly qualified and who deserve to be in this list. Hon. Speaker, on the issue of their qualifications, I want to note that those people are well read. There are several professors and doctors in this list. We need to mix all of them. So, I believe those people really merit those positions which they have been appointed to. Hon. Speaker, you know I am also very active on Facebook. I perused it and someone called Emmanuel from Bomet Central asked me to also ask you to clarify that Bomet Central is not among those funny constituencies and that it could be a different one. Thank you very much."
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