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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Mathenge",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Special Programmes",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Esther Murugi Mathenge",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to commend the Committee and say that we worked well with them in a few instances and in other few instances, we did not quite agree, but it was all because we were aiming at the same goal. I know that at the end of it all, we agreed to agreed, and not to disagree. The Committee’s Report is very comprehensive, and I would like to embrace it in its entirety. Unfortunately, I do not have the resources, especially for the recommendations. So, I want to urge you, as Members of Parliament, to ensure that I get enough budgetary allocation, so that I can deal with the issues that you have raised in the recommendations. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Members want me to compensate people for the businesses they lost, and I want to do so. However, I can assure you that I have been to the Ministry of Finance many times, looking for money; but I have not heard anything positive. So, if you can help me in this regard, I can assure you that I will do it. I also want to say that we have paid hospital bills for almost everybody who brought a bill to us, except those bills which were questionable. Some of the bills that were brought to the Ministry dated way back to September, 2007. There was no post- election violence in September, 2007. So, those bills which were genuine were paid, and we continue looking at those which are being brought. On the issue of re-vetting post-election IDPs, we have already looked into this matter. We have consulted the University of Nairobi to undertake a consultancy with regard to re-vetting IDPs and ascertain the genuine ones, so that we can proceed and fast- track the re-settlement exercise. The university is almost through with the assignment. I will be able to table its findings in Parliament, so that hon. Members can appreciate what is happening on the ground."
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