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    "id": 513869,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Opiyo",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odhiambo Opiyo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are looking forward for a time when we shall have a 25 to 30 years old Kenyan representative in another country either as a high commissioner or an ambassador. We have a young population. Majority of our people are young. We want to have people in service who can be in sync very easily with the majority of the Kenyan population. Also, going forward, all the ambassadorial appointments from Kenya should be done more or less at the same time. This will provide Parliament and, indeed, Kenyans with an opportunity to see how they reflect the face of the country. This is a constitutional provision and it is important that each and every time those appointments are done, we are given to see what happens. Also, it would have been exciting for the Committee to have given us a list of other candidates, so that we can look at what considerations may have been made to arrive at this particular person. As it stands, we know about one Major General (Rtd) Lucas K. Tumbo and no other person. So, we cannot have an option of comparing because we do not know the other people that he competed with. As I conclude, since I joined this Parliament, I have never known how it tastes to approve a person from one’s county or approve a person from one’s constituency. I believe that the President is listening. I am looking forward to a day that we will have a nominee appointed from the great Awendo Constituency or the great Migori County. We have sons and daughters of those regions who are sufficiently qualified to hold public positions. With that, I support."
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