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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musalia Mudavadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi",
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    "content": "at the same time. This would have been a situation where you are visiting when the outgoing ambassador was also just preparing to come back or had just left that is Amb. Amayo. Sometimes, you are caught up in these cycles between transition. Maybe, that is the reason you did not meet the ambassador, but there is one as we speak. I have indicated that the consular services, through the diaspora affairs, yielded about 2,500 identification cards (IDs) in different towns. Therefore, we will continue with the efforts to make sure that we reach out. Automation and technology are things we are pursuing within the context of the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, in liaison with immigration, so that we can improve the services. There are delays that we hope to navigate through going forward. Mr. Speaker, Sir, finally, it would be a big omission if I did not inform the Senate that one of the challenges that we have faced and we continue to face is resource allocation. I will give a very clear example that, for instance, when we lost the Finance Bill, 2024, we had to do a serious haircut in the Ministry, just like in other Ministries. However, when you look at it in the context of the resources that would have been available to ensure seamless operations, as of now, I admit that we are constrained financially and it is a challenge that is facing the entire country. We hope that within the context of the next financial year, as we progress, we can improve on the funding of our missions."
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