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    "id": 821686,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, in short, I am pleading with this House that we demonstrate maturity as a House that approves appointments by not going personal but rather, expressing where we feel someone has not performed well. What does her work at SRC got to do with her work as an ambassador to China? I am not sending her to China because I want her to go far as the Leader of the Majority Party was saying. I do not want to be with the Leader of the Majority Party on that because I know nowadays with communication, she can still be consulted. I know Madam Sarah Serem has learnt her lessons. I am sure she must be thinking in her mind when she is watching us debate and asking herself: “Really, did I understand these people correctly?” I am sure she knows now that Members of Parliament have a responsibility that sometimes you cannot quantify in terms of work output. We have a position in the society which needs to be appreciated even when you are doing the job grading. You do not just undermine us and equate us to cleaners. I know cleaners also do a good job because if they were not cleaning our offices and homes, we would not find them comfortable. But when you want to demean a Member of Parliament who has been elected… In fact, I wanted Sarah Serem to contest even for a Member of County Assembly (MCA) position and get even 100 votes. In fact, persuading an adult to wake up in the morning with his vote and ID to go and vote for you in secret, where you are not even seeing that person, is the most difficult job. Some people who have managed to persuade like that consistently for 15 years should be accorded some respect. That is the message that Serem should carry as she boards a plane to China. That evening when she is travelling to China, I want her to reflect back on how she handled her job at SRC."
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