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    "id": 76155,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir, for protecting me on that. I could go on with the list. As I said we have two positions that are vacant. I believe the sentiments of this House and my own sentiments in terms of wanting to see the face of Kenya represented will be taken on board. It may well be that when we put up the advertisement, we will specifically bar some regions from applying if that is what Members would like to see happening. However, I am not sure how constitutional that would be. So we need to get some guidance on this. Mr. Speaker, Sir, going back into the terms of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), I wish to confirm that indeed, like I said in my Statement, when we discussed this matter with the Board, we have people who have been working at the KPA. They are as qualified as people working outside the KPA. They are eligible to apply. We decided that the first thing we should do is to look inside the Authority; do we have a successor before we open it up to outsiders? It gets very de-motivating for people to work within an Authority and every time an opportunity is available, somebody comes from outside. We need to look into this. The synergies of working together we realized, have problems. We discussed with the Board and they convinced me that in this instance, they have five people who they would like me to consider. They looked at them and gave me all the paperwork. When we looked at them together, we concurred on the name they had settled on. We said we should go forward and appoint the person who had been acting for six months. If Members looked at his Curriculum Vitae they would be able to see the recommendation that came from the members of the Board. They themselves were convinced that they had the right candidate within the organization. There was, therefore, no need to look outside the organization. I granted them that wish and appointed the person they recommended to me who is Mr. Gichiri Ndua. Even at that point, Mr. Ndua was even the President of the Ports and Harbours Association on a global basis. With a Kenyan recognized at that level, it would look odd to look outside to remove him and bring somebody else. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to confirm that there was competition internally and that we did not need to advertise because we had enough candidates in-house. If we did not"
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