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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Katoo ole Metito",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Janet Marania Teyiaa",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have five minutes. I do not know how much I will say because I will speak on behalf of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations that oversees about five State agencies. Let me begin with our Defence Forces and say that they have really managed to keep at bay the threats from Al Shabaab very significantly. And I think they require an applause, a commendation and also resources to match emerging threats because of the environment that is always changing. Our Defence Forces are, as well, very vital in the fight against this COVID-19 pandemic, thus resources need to be provided to ensure that. Our National Intelligence Service (NIS) has also played a very critical role in the COVID- 19 containment. The agency will use part of its resources to support the Ministry of Health in contact-tracing and surveillance. As they do that, if the curve will not be flattened, there will be need for more resources to be provided to NIS to help in flattening the curve. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a very critical component in terms of our diplomatic front. We have embarked on opening our missions in regions like Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Accra, Senegal, Morocco and Djibouti as well, but we have seen a reduction of 7 per cent in the personal emoluments and that of 21 per cent on Overseas New Missions (ONM) 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"
}