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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waititu",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Munyua Waititu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. My concern is also about offices. As you know, even the people who are employed at the constituencies are paid by hon. Members in order to sustain them. That is because money that comes quarterly is very hard to get. Here in Nairobi, most hon. Members are going through very hard times at the moment because they have also rented offices. I am lucky to come from Juja Constituency. My friend, Simba Arati who is a close friend now--- Most of them do not have offices around the Central Business District (CBD). Renting an office in the CBD with the little money that we get here, you can only get an office outside the CBD and at a far distance. So, it is important that the offices that we are provided for by the Government be given to the people who come from far. Hon. Speaker, if I had an office, I would have given it to somebody whom I know is suffering. I have seen many with their constituents outside the gate because they are not allowed to come inside Parliament. They share the problems of their constituents outside this Parliament. So, it is important as our Speaker, to consider us because some of us are really suffering. About hon. Members being late on Wednesdays, I wake up at 5.00 a.m. and there is traffic jam on the super highway. When all the cars are going to the CBD, there is a lot of jam. So, we could ask: If an hon. Member is stuck in the jam and there is a police officer around, they allow us to move so that we are here in time. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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