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    "id": 1076740,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1076740/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyaribari Chache, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Tong’i",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs faces uncertainty given the level of funding against the requirement for the ministry. First there is the depreciation of the shilling against the dollar. You appreciate that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is dealing with foreign institutions and their operations most times are foreign currency based. Whenever they are sending money to our embassies, they are sending them in dollars or foreign currencies. Therefore, they suffer the risk of fluctuation. Whenever our shilling is weakened, that reduces their budget by almost 4 to 5 per cent, depending on the fluctuation. So, we urge the Budget and Appropriations Committee to appropriate them some funds to cushion them on those fluctuations. They have to get money somehow from their own savings to use in the event that the shilling has fallen or depreciated against the hard currencies in the world. The current arrangement is that the mission retains collection for visas, passports and other fees and the money is utilised to fund immigration attachés in foreign missions."
}