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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Onunga Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First, I want to send my condolences to the family of Miriam, who perished in the ferry incidence. This is a question of failed leadership. I think we must be honest, as Hon. Millie has said. Parliament must take the blame for this incident for two reasons. One, we have failed in properly allocating budget for relevant institutions that are supposed to safeguard our lives, especially in case of disasters. But more fundamentally, this House continues to approve people to public offices who are clearly incompetent; people who cannot perform or deliver. When names are brought here for Members of this House to ventilate and interrogate, the best we do is to make noise and shout, “Let us pass, let us pass”. So, what do we expect these incompetent people to go and do? We are giving Kenyans a raw deal. So, I blame this House. The incompetence in public service is something we cannot continue to tolerate. If we are going to have MDs from our ethnic backgrounds, who we clearly know cannot serve Kenyans and we clap for them, we are going to have more disasters. Let this House wake up. Yesterday, we approved land grabbers to take care of our land. What were we doing? Tomorrow when disasters emerge from those offices, we will come here to lament. Let us wake up. Let the watchdog committees of this house take lead in the oversight of public officers. If public officers will commit offences, or be corrupt and show us complete ineptitude, we will 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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