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    "id": 195520,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Onyancha",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Onyancha",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Thank you, Mr. Minister, for donating some of your time to me. I shall be very brief. I wish to support the Motion. I also wish to congratulate the Minister for a job well done as usual. I have not seen any Minister yet, while reading the previous copies of HANSARD, receiving so many accolades. So, I hope that it does not affect your future performance. In supporting this Motion, I wish to draw attention to the recent events about the prison warders and hope that there is provision for their increased salaries as well as benefits. I hope that the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security will look into the issue about the Senior Assistant Commissioners of Prisons who are now being prosecuted. Surely, the prison warders had a genuine case. As we view this scenario from outside, we believe that those April 30, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 819 Assistant Commissioners of Prisons not deserve to be prosecuted for fighting for their rights and those of their colleagues. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of debt restructuring, there is the issue about long-term and short-term debts. It has been talked about in the country for a while. I believe that we can save some money which can go towards development expenditure. We can restructure the payment period of the external debt, so that we can finance infrastructure. We do not know what the situation is at present. I hope that the Minister will come up with some information in due course, so that we may know where we are. We got a lot of the external loans when we were not quite accountable. Indeed, it is time we actually requested for a write-off or insisted on that debt to be written off because it is eating a lot into our resources. We have seen some highly indebted countries have their debts written off. However, our case is yet to be addressed. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Kshs3 billion which has been allocated for the resettlement of IDPs is very little. We hope that the amount will be increased to Kshs10 billion. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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