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    "id": 697997,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/697997/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shimbwa",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Omar Mwinyi Shimbwa",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill by our colleague Hon. David Ochieng. In fact, one big problem that we have in our country is notational and attitudinal. You will always hear comments to the effect: “Do not mind if you fail in your bid to be elected. The Government is big. It will accommodate you.” Those are the people who are appointed to parastatals as directors. This Bill is important and timely. We need to weed out directors who have no qualifications and background knowledge of whatever institutions they have been appointed to lead. I know members of certain boards like Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) who were appointed just because their kinsmen are well placed in society. I have been made to understand that those people have never contributed in a single discussion until, sometimes, when the chairmen request them to say a prayer as a contribution just because they have never been heard. So, if that is the situation in an organisation such as KPA, we are headed in the wrong direction. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker---"
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