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    "id": 1481062,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1481062/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Dullo",
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        "legal_name": "Dullo Fatuma Adan",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I wish to welcome the Cabinet Secretary. I want to ask a question on office accommodation in various missions and embassies. I sit in the Committee of National Security and Foreign Relations of this House. Cabinet Secretary, we have tried to get in touch with you to discuss matters affecting our particular Committee, but we are unable to get you and I do not want to prosecute that here. I remember in 2015, there was a Motion passed on the Floor of this House regarding office accommodation by the then Senator for Nyeri, Mutahi Kagwe. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on our last visit to the United Arabs Emirates (UAE), the embassies were complaining about the value of the Kenyan Shilling that had gone down. It had doubled the rent that they are paying within those missions and embassies. I remember in that particular Motion, the Senator was requesting that the money you are paying for those rents should be used in form of a loan to pay for those properties the Government is occupying. I have been to Switzerland, Geneva. The kind of office that you have there is very beautiful and we get very encouraged when we visit those offices. We, as the Kenyan Government, are renting a property in New York when Uganda has a very huge building in New York City. It is embarrassing. What is the Ministry doing as far as this office accommodation is concerned? I thank you."
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