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    "id": 615937,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Akujah",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Protus Ewesit Akujah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support this Motion. For record purposes, I sit in the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security which vetted this candidate. Listening to the candidate and looking at his credentials, this nominee is suitable for this job. He has a Degree in Agriculture and he has worked in most agricultural institutions. First, most prisons have huge chunks of land that can be utilised for agriculture to feed the prisoners and sell the surplus to other Kenyans. I am saying this because we have visited some prisons and what we found is that some of them like Shimo La Tewa Maximum Security Prison and the Naivasha Maximum Security Prison have huge debts in terms of the food they consume. If they are able to produce their own food, then we will not have that debt. Secondly, this nominee has climbed up the ranks to the current position he holds. He has a lot of management skills and a lot of experience in budget monitoring. So, he is able to manage this State Department. The creation of this position is a good gesture by this Government. In the past, this Department has been under the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government and was swallowed by that Ministry. Now that they are independent, they will have their own budget in order to prioritise their needs. That will speed up reforms at the correctional services such as congestion, poor sanitation and other challenges in the prisons. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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