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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Mahamud",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute to this Motion. Let me also congratulate the nominees for this position of Principal Secretaries for the Department of Planning and Statistics; the Department of Industry and Enterprise Development; Department of Tourism; and Department of Multinational Trade. These persons, as the Committee has stated in the Report, have a wealth of experience. They actually have the competence required for the jobs they have been nominated for. In fact, three of the nominees are people I know. I know one of them very well because she comes from my region. She is a very competent person. She is also well educated and well disciplined. She has a lot of experience from the private sector. She worked with the Nation Media Group and the African Gulf Bank. Her latest position was in Berne, Switzerland. She will be a big asset to the tourism industry in this country. I want to congratulate her and thank the President for nominating her. I had an occasion to interact with Dr. Christopher Kiptoo when he was working in the office of the former Prime Minister in the last Parliament. He is a very competent young man. He will be a very good asset for the Department of International Trade for which he has been nominated. Mr. Julius Korir is a career civil servant. I know he is the Secretary for Industry now and has been promoted in the same Ministry. I am sure he will work properly so that that Ministry performs well. These people were cleared by the EACC and the CID. They have not been dismissed in their lives and they will be useful. However, in future, I wish that when the President is nominating Permanent Secretaries he looks at the people he has in the public service. In this list we have here today, very few of the nominees are public servants. That will demoralize the civil servants because they will not be promoted within the cadres. If we do not do that, these people who are put there, competent as they are, will be frustrated by those who are working there. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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