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    "id": 185761,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Onyonka",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 128,
        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
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    "content": " Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to support this Motion. Mr. Namwamba wants to be on my case today. We have very weighty matters at our constituencies. Currently we have just received our tranches of the monies which are supposed to be distributed to various areas in our constituencies. We have not done that because the monies came in late. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as Members have been alluding, we have been having issues at our schools. We, therefore, need to go to the villages and find out why our schools have problems. If possible, when we come back to the House, we should be able to debate, discuss and see whether August 7, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2479 we can come up with a solution. The other issue is that some Members might have received most of their bursary money early. As you know, once schools are closed, we would prefer to go put the money together and disburse it so that when students go back to schools, we would have the cheques ready. As much as I am saying that we need to go for this recess, the other side has come up with very weighty matters. I would just like to mention three of them. One of the points that one hon. Member has raised is that at some point it looked like we were too many to be in Government. I want to raise this issue because the truth is, there is no price too high for us to have paid to save our country. The fact that we have 42 members of the Cabinet is actually not a bad idea in so far as it has made the Grand Coalition hold. We are proud that the Grand Coalition is holding because Kenya is a peaceful country. An hon. Member said that teachers should not sign the performance contracts. It is true. What I wanted to raise is that, in fact, all Members of Parliament should sign the performance contracts before the teachers do. It is a very good point because performance contracting will make us achieve our targets and serve our public well. Lastly, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to support hon. Members who are advocating for the Grand Opposition. They have done this country proud because they have been trying to make sure that the country runs well. Thank you."
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