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    "id": 354509,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/354509/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Momanyi",
    "speaker_title": "March 24, 2013 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 41 The Member for Borabu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1272,
        "legal_name": "Ben George Orori Momanyi",
        "slug": "ben-george-orori-momanyi"
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, thank you. I also join the rest of my colleagues who have spoken ahead of me in congratulating you and the Speaker for the successful election. I also thank the people of Borabu for deeming it fit to elect me as Member of Parliament and I undertake to serve them without fear or favour. I also congratulate the President and his Deputy for the successful election. Indeed, I also join the rest of hon. Members who have termed the President’s Speech as ambitious. It is a very ambitious Speech. I also want to point out the issue of laptops. We are not asking ourselves how much these laptops will cost or whose money it is. As we speak today, some of us who are first timers in this House have no offices, we are operating from our cars. The President, his Deputy and the Government side have not addressed that issue. As we stand here today, some of us have no cars; we have not been given money to buy cars and we are using matatus . Nobody is addressing these issues and so as much as the President is so ambitious to please some people out there, we also expect that we will work as a team and make sure that our welfare is catered for. The President spoke about how unsustainable the wage bill is. When you look at the motorcade that the President always moves around town with, he should have been the last person to talk about the wage bill. This is because if indeed he is for the common Kenyan, we would have seen a minimum motorcade compared to what former President Kibaki was using. Hon. Speaker, we wished to see a smaller motorcade away from what we have been seeing our former President, hon. Kibaki using around. We are told that this is a digital Government, so we expect them to do things in a different way. We expected him to come here without outriders, we expected him---"
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