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    "id": 619025,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "when you are appointed chair of a particular institution, you will not take responsibility for anything, and when bad things happen you blame your juniors. We appoint you because you are better than your juniors but if the juniors are better than you, then you have no business sitting in that position. You should have left office long time ago. We pick people on the basis of their competence, technical skills and people relationship. It is about management. If you are not technically competent, then you have no business being in that office. You are supposed to provide leadership to institutions. These are the basic things we are taught in leadership classes. Nobody should sit in a position of leadership and thereafter, scapegoat and say that it is the juniors who failed. Passing the buck must never be accepted. The former Chief Registrar must take responsibility. As the head of the administration wing, she ought to take responsibility. Equally, everybody, including me at my constituency level, must take responsibility. When things go wrong with the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), the Member of Parliament is blamed. I know of a former Member from my county who cannot be re-elected to this House. When he was the Member of Parliament and was asked why he stole CDF money, he replied that the CDF did not belong to anyone’s mother. He is reminded everyday that the seat does not belong to his mother either, and is thus not elected. We must be clear on some of these things so that you are not appointed to a position only for you to abuse others. We will not accept such a thing. With those remarks, I support part (ii) of the amendment but Hon. Ochieng should shop for a seconder for part (iii) of his amendment."
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