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    "id": 397796,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/397796/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Machage",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 179,
        "legal_name": "Wilfred Gisuka Machage",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, as I support this Motion, I would like to congratulate Sen. Kagwe for a well-thought Motion. Madam Temporary Speaker, indeed, a lot of facts have been raised on the Floor of this House, even by Members who are living their second or third lives. The Senate Majority Leader talked of his previous life and I wondered whose reincarnation he could be now. That is a nice joke, but what Sen. Kagwe has raised is not a joke but a reality. Indeed, access to information is a constitutional right. The Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) is actually a requirement by law to all financial handling institutions in this country. Therefore, the national Government is obligated by law to make sure that there is no skewed distribution of the fibre optic national network, but to know that it is a requirement by the Constitution that this network is actually distributed equally to all areas in this country. We do not need to make requests and beg for this. They should have started it. Madam Temporary Speaker, last week, the Cabinet Secretary for Education did announce the plans to distribute computers to primary schools and was surprised that only a few have been picked for the start of the project. That level of skewedness should be avoided at all costs. What were his parameters regarding the decision on which areas were to be given these facilities? If that is a Presidential directive and, indeed, a directive by the Jubilee Government, then they should do it in toto without avoiding the children of Ijara and Kuria. We will not accept that. It must be done properly, equally---"
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