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    "id": 1345883,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I agree with the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party. I do not think that this matter should get here every year. This House sits and approves a budget and even a supplementary budget, where Parliament gets its allocations cut. But now we are proceeding for recess, yet no one knows when the NG-CDF money will be disbursed. This is the third year running where we have to beg for NG-CDF so as to get bursaries for our children. This House is losing its teeth and shin. The House is no longer what it used to be. This is my third term here. I have never seen a situation where we have had to ask the Leader of the Majority Party to talk about NG-CDF. I believe it is because, as Members, we have become weak. We have allowed the Executive to do whatever they want to us. As Members, we must take our role seriously, especially in Committees. There is no day I have seen any Committee sending away a Cabinet Secretary. If you do not use your teeth, they will become blunt. Everyone knows that they are blunt, and you cannot do anything with them. As much as we have put pressure on the Leader of the Majority Party, it is us, as Parliament, that have allowed the Executive to go away with too much. They now think they can get away with anything against us."
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