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    "id": 821582,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Muhoroni, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Onyango Oyoo",
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I had actually intended to speak to the Motion that was proposing the appointment of the PS for Labour and Social Welfare. All the same, I think these are very able Government servants that have been proposed. I want to say that Madam Esther Koimett has had a checkered career in the National Treasury. She has had a long career. She is a bright Kenyan and I am happy that despite the record that Hon. Mbadi has tabled here, Esther, together with the newly appointed PS for Labour and Social Welfare, are serious career civil servants who have had checkered careers emanating from a long period. That is what it takes to be there. They are bringing on board a lot of experience and competence. This will help us mitigate the vice that has come into being today where most PSs and major Government appointments are considerations done to various corporate personalities, more so those who have been working outside the Government, but are known to be quietly supporting political parties while working outside. This vice was eating into the fabric of the Civil Service such that there is a lot of stagnation in the line of appointment for career civil servants. Esther Koimett has done a very good job at the National Treasury and she is a very humble person as has been described. Until today, very few street people like us knew she was the daughter of the dreaded late Kipyator Biwott. What we met is Esther Koimett, the officer we went to see. She has what it takes. I support the appointment and leave everything else to the procedure. If there is any indictment that was done, I hope the Government has several other mechanisms that can help us unravel that."
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