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    "id": 1356893,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The President carried out a very critical national duty last week in this House. It should be understood that it was a serious national duty. I only want to make two or three comments, which I ought to have made when the Leader of the Majority Party was here. First, is the issue of the environment in which we make our statements. Second, is how we package public information. Last, is the huge support that is going to counties from this financial year onwards. The environment that we operate in results in some public statements not being properly understood by the citizenry. We have a citizenry that wants immediate results. If you talk about fertiliser, they want it in their farms today. They want products immediately. The section of the Government that packages public information should be aware that we are communicating to a public that wants immediate results. Information on long-term projects should be packaged in a manner that does not make it seem like those projects are being introduced tomorrow. Some of the information that is dispensed is not clearly understood. Who packages information? The Government should look into that matter. A lot of public information is released crudely and it becomes difficult to correct it on time. Certain segments of the Government are insensitive. Our country’s current situation dictates that nobody should be talking about adding levies or taxes on the citizenry. Certain segments of the Government, which are fully aware of this, are very insensitive to the extent that they still come up with proposals and ideas to increase monies for obtaining identification cards and marriage certificates. We live in an environment where some of these things are taken literally. News on social media moves very fast and exaggerates most of the things that we do. The public only hears the exaggerated bits. Segments of the Government that are responsible for public communication should not quickly release confusing information to the public. They should “brew” and “cook” things properly to ensure that the end product is ready to be “eaten” by the public. I wanted to bring out that critical point. Second, is the support that we are extending to counties, which was indicated in the President’s Speech and the Budget that we passed. We need to re-look at it because it will be a problem in future. The national Government is committing Ksh2,500 to each public health The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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