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    "id": 490462,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shill",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Elias Bare Shill",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. May I take this opportunity to thank all Members, especially those ones who spoke and those ones who have not spoken. I also wish to take this opportunity to thank the Chairman and the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. As I was saying, this is the largest number of nominees to be vetted by a single Committee. I also want to applaud the Constitution which gave this mandate to the representatives of the people to check the suitability of the nominees. This is another way of checking the Executive and whether they have chosen the right people. This will also send signals to public officers, especially ambassadors and high commissioners, that when they go and discharge their duties, they should be working properly. Economic diplomacy is one of the things that we always try to give. We want value for money. We want to see so many Kenyans employed. We want to see so many businessmen and women of Kenya having many businesses in many countries and also we want direct foreign investment to be doubled in this country. Hon. Speaker, if I go to our nominees, Prof. Sam Ongeri has done a good job for this country. The age he has demonstrated is nothing but a number. After all, the people he is going to intermingle with, some of them are his age mates like Ban Ki Moon, Kerry, the Foreign Secretary of the United States and Kofi Annan. So, there is nothing wrong to have that type of age. What I am also saying is that I am thanking of the House. All those nominees who have been vetted are up to the task. We have cleared them. We have seen that they are going to do well and I plead with Members of Parliament to pass them through. They are Kenyans. They are doing well and they will be doing very well. I am sure majority of them are serving ambassadors and they have done a good job in many places. So with those few remarks, I would like to move."
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