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    "id": 1291253,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I join the rest of my colleagues in appreciating the Cabinet Secretary for his appearance. Secondly, I commend him for grasping issues in his Ministry. Listening to him, you would think he has served in the military. However, since I know him and his family well, I suspect there are tips he gets from his lovely wife who is a daughter of a general. Probably, that is where he has gotten all these tips about the things happening in this sector. I had serious concerns about the issues happening in Lamu County. I have heard the Cabinet Secretary responding and he has satisfied me. We are just two or three months’ shy of December. He has promised that they have made budgetary provisions for equipment that will help our military officers who are serving in Lamu County and many such areas. It was increasingly troubling to see our soldiers die because of the activities of Al Shabaab in that area. The last comment I will make is softer, which is on behalf of Parliament. Parliament does not have many facilities, some of which we may want to use. The Cabinet Secretary has served as a Parliamentarian and knows that on many occasions, we have to seek the assistance of other Government agencies with regard to facilities, where Members can train and do other social support activities to help them with their work. Particularly, there is preparation for the annual East African Legislative Assembly games and because of lack of stadia, for example, Nyayo Stadium remains unavailable particularly for Members of the football team. We have tried to seek the intervention of the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Interior and National Administration. While his colleague at the Ministry of Interior and National Administration has been gracious and on many occasions Bunge Football Team is allowed to play at the police stadium, we have never received such reciprocated"
}