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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojaamong",
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        "legal_name": "Sospeter Odeke Ojaamongson",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity. First, I must congratulate my neighbour who has just been on the Floor for having eloquently supported the Report on behalf of the Government. I also want to add my voice on this Report. It is a Report worth reading and worth being emulated by the Government. The speaker who has just been on the Floor has brought out very clear issues. First, is that the EU, unlike other organizations, gives us money in the form of grants with very few conditionalities. That is a plus for the EU. Secondly, he has just said that the EU does not work with individual countries but with regional groupings like the East African Community. But that is where the problem is. Kenya is a member of the East African Community, how did it mess up the appointment of Members of Parliament to the Assembly which has caused so many things to be held back? If we mess up the appointment of the Members of Parliament on the Floor of the House, so many things will come to a stand-still. But did this Government listen? Does this Government, therefore, take seriously this kind of Report, as the Assistant Minister has just said? To me, I would say that it does not. This Report talks about Parliamentarians and Government taking very seriously the fight against corruption. But in East Africa, we are rated most highly in terms of corrupt practices. So, how do we expect these other countries to respect us in any way? In my view, in fact, it is the Government Ministers and a number of Government officers who are supposed to be taken for a workshop first before Members of Parliament. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Assistant Minister also spoke on the issue of the Joint Committee of Ambassadors and High Commissioners meeting first and trying to iron out many issues to be funded by the European Union. I was just talking to one member of the delegation. It seems that when people leave this country, they do not even know what to go and talk about; they do not know what the Government has negotiated with this EU countries. So, the Joint Committee of Ambassadors and High Commissioners has, for the whole year, been--- They do not know what exactly they negotiated about. They just go to the plenary. It is my appeal that our delegation should make an effort to meet with the ambassadors. In fact, they should be informed prior to reaching there, so that they know what issues to highlight in the plenary, and to avoid their being ambushed. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, our delegates---"
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