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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion in support of this Vote. I will speak a little bit on the appointment of ambassadors and diplomatic staff. I want to begin by saying that although many appointments for diplomats in many countries of the world including the more established democracies are politicized, I must say that in this country, we tend to be much more politicized in the way we decide who becomes a diplomat in this country. There are also other considerations. Sometimes, it is not about merit. Sometimes, it is about who you know and who you are related to. Sometimes, it is about people who are already in power, including their relatives and friends. So, you are doubly advantaging certain people depending on what kind of place they occupy in this society. When you by-pass more qualified carrier diplomats because you have others who have closer attachment to the appointer, it may also have an effect on demoralizing those that are by- passed if they happen to be more qualified. If your main qualification to be a diplomatic is because you are close to a politician, sometimes you can be arrogant and become more indebted to the appointer rather than the country. Due to politicization, we have seen costly expansion of diplomatic missions. We keep on adding more people because we have to get So and So represented. Some of the people that have been appointed to these diplomatic missions given the nature of our politics, also tend to exercise and demonstrate the political division even as they serve us out of this country. For example, the debate between ODM and PNU and who will get a bigger share of the diplomatic missions."
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