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    "id": 773814,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I want to join my colleagues in supporting the nomination of the nine nominees. We, from northern Kenya, the Pastoralists Parliamentary Group and the entire pastoralist fraternity are very proud of all the nominees, including the ones who come from our region. The President has done us proud. This is something that we did not expect. We know that all the nine nominees merit and have the credentials and experience that is necessary for the respective jobs they have been nominated to take up. Specifically, I want to mention the Department of Water, which is life for the pastoralist communities. It occupies 80 per cent of our land mass. At the present time we know that there is drought and so high competition for resources. However, we expect rains. Our country has not been able to harvest surface runoff water. This particular nominee in the Ministry of Water and Sanitation, Mr. Simon Chelugui, will have a big role to play to ensure that we increase the volume of water in our dams. He must ensure that we get enough water for our livestock, our people and even for irrigation. Having worked in the Civil Service, I have interacted with almost all of these nominees. I knew Hon. John Munyes in 1994 when he was working with Oxfam, he later became an MP, then a Senator. He has been a Minister and also worked in the NGO world. I think he is a person of high integrity. For Amb. Monica Juma, we had interactions with her in the last Parliament. As my colleagues have said, some of us did not understand her, especially the time when we rejected her nomination to become Secretary to the Cabinet. We have learnt more now and I think later when she went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a PS, we interacted more and we understood her better. For us gentlemen, you cannot beat a lady twice. You beat her once and forget about The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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