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    "id": 821704,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, if my memory is correct, Cap 5 was the then Parliamentary Salaries Act which required that any adjustment to the mileage would have to be approved by the National Treasury. The PSC made those requests and I approved the mileages and even the increase of the mortgage. I had set those regulations to increase the mortgage to what it was and to even allow it to be used for renovation of buildings because not everyone was buying a house. The point I am making is that there are jobs that you are appointed to that require you to make some decisions that might not be very popular, and you cannot then be held responsible for making those decisions. We need to look at those people. It is the same thing that we would be facing when we are looking at the Director of Criminal Investigation. There are people he may have taken to court. When you are vetting a former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), there are people he may have taken to court not because of anything personal. It is important when we are vetting people that we do not hold grudges because of the exigencies of the office and job placed on them and then we hold them responsible forever. Those guys will represent us well. They are good people. I know quite a number of them. We can only wish them the best. Most importantly, I believe they have been put there, not because they have failed in the other jobs or are being “kicked upstairs” as the Americans would say, but because they have been assessed and are the people who best represent the interests of our country. A heavy responsibility has been placed on Sarah Serem. Looking at the bilateral agreements and the financing issues between Kenya and China, China seems to be a heavy responsibility. We wish her the very best. I wanted to re-emphasise the point that there are so many career diplomats who may also need to be considered in the second wave. This is so that they do not think that their careers have been curtailed to just serving people who come from the outside and they do not see any progression beyond themselves, unless they retire and join us on this side in politics. I just wanted to highlight some of those things. Be that as it may, I am happy to support the Report and congratulate the Committee for a job well done. 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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