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    "id": 193113,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojaamong",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Labour",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sospeter Odeke Ojaamongson",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Budget Speech by the Minister for Finance. While thanking the Minister for having made the Budget proposals, he promised that he was going to ensure that services to Kenyans were delivered effectively and efficiently. All this refers to the Civil Service. We have complained about that for a very long time. In fact, before the NARC Government came to power, we had a very corrupt Civil Service, which we needed to reform so that Kenyans could get efficient and effective services. If you go to most Government offices now, I do not think that the quality of services to Kenyans has changed from the KANU days. If you visit any hospital, the nurses and doctors come to work late and are just relaxed in their workplaces. So, there are complaints from the public that they are not getting the services they need, yet, as a Government, we are saying that we are giving free medical treatment to pregnant mothers and children under the age of five years. Those are just things that we talk about in offices, but are not practical down there. When the Minister promises that we will deliver effective and efficient services, I appeal that every Ministry takes it upon itself to ensure that it delivers the service to the people. To that end, I suggest that mechanisms be put in place and performance contracts be signed by all employees of the Government, so that we are able to know what somebody has done in a week, for example. For now it is just a routine; people have to wake up, go to their offices, sit, read papers and in the evening go back to their houses without showing anything that they have done."
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