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"content": "It is important that we have somebody who appreciates and supports that strategy. Again, it is important for the nominee of the ambassadorial post to Somalia to not just give us good stories; that he is willing to move to Somalia, and that he will be stationed there. That alone will not help. He can be stationed in Somalia and sleep in a hotel the whole day without doing anything. My good friend, the Chairman of the Committee, who is sitting in front of me, being a good manager, knows that that which cannot be measured cannot be rewarded. You cannot pin him down and demand that he explains what it is that he has achieved in a given period of time. We are proposing that the Committee uses its influence and gets the new ambassador to commit himself to a timeframe within which he plans to have his strategy in place, so that we can measure his achievement using that strategy. Otherwise, if we are not going to put standards, he will be based in Nairobi and go to Somalia for one week just because he wants to appease his appointing authority. After a little while, he will come back to Nairobi and operate like all other ambassadors who have been there in the past, who were operating from Nairobi. It was actually one of the easiest jobs to do, because you operate from your personal house. You are paid an allowance as an ambassador yet there is nothing you are doing other than meeting a few businessmen in Nairobi who claim to come from Somalia yet we know that they are involved in so many other issues which we may not want to disclose at this point in time."
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