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    "id": 1001243,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1001243/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyaribari Chache, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Tong’i",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": " Thank you for the opportunity, Hon. Chairman. I know where my Chairman, Hon. Metito, is coming from. It is the concern of the Committee that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is most of the time confused with travelling and yet, it’s main or core function is to represent Kenya out there. It is the face of the country. Therefore, we thought that most times when somebody sits in the office and they are looking at their travelling expense, the natural place to go to is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs because they do not appreciate the challenges that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has. So, we hear you. We hear your comments that this is probably not the best forum to bring that issue. However, it is also important for colleagues to understand and appreciate that this challenge is there and the function of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is out there; outside the country. Once they appreciate that, nobody will be taken by surprise when my Chairman moves the proposal to ring-fence this budget. Nobody will ask why we are doing this and yet, those are people who are busybodies, for lack of a better word, moving all over the country."
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