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    "id": 228927,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Mwau",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Labour and Human Resource Development",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Adelina Ndeto Mwau",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I want to congratulate the President for highlighting very well documented development achievements since NARC took over power. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, before I comment further on the Presidential Address, I want to congratulate the Speaker for standing up for us. As Members of Parliament, we have been getting a lot of bashing from the civil society. I want to say that for the first time, somebody stood up and said that apart from actually attending plenary sessions of the House, we attend Committee meetings, funeral arrangement meetings, Harambees, and also implement, monitor and evaluate CDF projects. I would like to urge the media to take a week of a Member of Parliament and document what that hon. Member does from Monday to Sunday, what time he or she wakes up, what time he or she goes to sleep and what exactly happens in their day. I have been wondering whether there is no Public Relations Officer in Parliament who can get to inform the media and the civil society what exactly Members of Parliament do. We need to draw up terms of reference for Members of Parliament. People talk of what we earn but not what we do. 188 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES March 28, 2007 Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to say that the Presidential Address presented the reality. I do not understand what is political about it. The Members from the Opposition side have been saying the Presidential Address was a campaign speech. How is that? For sure, we have attained 80 per cent primary school enrolment. For sure, we are moving towards 100 per cent of free primary education. The Government is in the process of employing 40,000 teachers to enhance education. Is that politics? If you walk in our towns, for example this City, you can see it has become the true city in the sun. For the last few years, the city has become organised; there is some order, and you can see some flowers growing. You can actually be proud to be in Nairobi. You go to offices and you find some order and see that services have improved. So, for sure, for the last four years, this Government has really worked."
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