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    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving an opportunity to add my voice to the debate that is before the House. I support this nomination and commend the Committee for the work they have done. When I left the university and was employed in the Ministry of Housing—that was like my second or third opportunity to work in the Civil Service—I was placed under the management of Enosh Onyango Momanyi. I must say from the outset that when we were working together, we used to call him Enoch. This name Enosh is not very easy especially for those of us who come from an area where ‘s’ and ‘h’ and ‘c’ and ‘h’ give us a problem. So, we were more comfortable calling him Enoch. I want to thank the Committee for having done due diligence and establishing his actual name, so that the person we are approving is the same person as per the documents. He has correctly been described by Members who have spoken before me. He is a person who chose from the beginning to serve the public. Certainly, at the time when I was under his management, I was a young person. And you can see 30 years later he is still keen on serving the public. I believe that he is going to be useful to this Department. Like others have said, he has vast experience in the area of physical planning, housing administration and matters related thereto. It is important to say that he comes on board at a time when the physical planning aspects of our country are sidelined. Not a lot of attention is being paid to that aspect. I do not know but I believe he will have an opportunity to even influence the issue of land use in our country. If we do not pay attention to the way we are using our land – and I know the Committee Chair and the whole team is up to speed with this issue - we are certainly going to find ourselves having lost that land that would have been useful to us in terms of agriculture. Speaking of Kiambu, which is next to us and every one of us would have passed through there going home or elsewhere, you see what we are doing with what used to be coffee plantations. The red soil, which is really a rare commodity across the world, we now have decided to cover it with concrete. And we are happy to do so. Last night I passed through that area. Unfortunately, quite a number of houses that have been put up are now empty. There are no tenants or buyers. So, we have issues that we need to think about. The turning of our land from agriculture to residential use, without some form of consideration… The sub-division of our agricultural land to plots of 50 by 100, which the Member for Funyula might have sold a few and found his way to Parliament, is not quite a very good thing. It is something that we need to be careful about as a country. It may help you for now, but the coming generations will certainly suffer. We hope that Enosh will address himself to those issues and help us get some direction as a country. His demeanour is that of a person who wants to serve. Even when I was a Member of Parliament the other term, he and the former Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi helped 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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