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    "id": 1000694,
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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, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am now relaxed. Let me emphasize my point as a continuation on our missions abroad. We have acquired some assets in missions abroad, especially in Lusaka, Kinshasa, New York and Washington DC. However, despite those efforts, there is need to renovate those assets, to keep and maintain them to the required standards. Otherwise, they are going to deteriorate and become very expensive in the long run through major rehabilitation works. Therefore, there is need for the National Treasury to provide some budget lines for the maintenance of those assets. As I said, there is a lot of increased capital flows to Kenya through those missions. Some of those remittances, as the Leader of Minority was talking about, are new sources for our economic diplomatic pillars. Therefore, we need to be competitive globally as a nation and those missions are going to play a critical role in ensuring that. We have visited many missions like Pretoria, Washington, Dubai, Lusaka, Los Angeles and Malaysia among others and, as a Committee, we recommend that the agency responsible for international trade liaises with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send commercial attachés to some of those missions to enable the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to achieve that role of economic diplomacy. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the issue of the East African Community and the Ministry in charge of Regional Development Authorities (RDAs), which we oversee as a Committee, for the regional development, I want to say that there is too little that was provided to the six RDAs. First of all, we recommend that the Ministry fast-tracks forwarding to this House through my Committee, the Regional Development Authority Bill (RDA) that will put all those RDAs under one umbrella, instead of each of them operating under individual Acts of Parliament. This may actually help them in sourcing for funds."
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