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    "id": 462051,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Otsiula",
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        "legal_name": "Bonface Okhiya Otsiula",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to also contribute to this Motion. I want to thank my colleague, hon. Jamleck Kamau, for this well thought Motion, coming at a time when we are at the bottom of everything in terms of finances. Hon. Kamau should not only have thought of how these officers ought to be travelling, but also where they are going to stay. They stay in very expensive hotels paying over Kshs200,000 or Kshs300,000 in a day. As much as we want them to travel Business Class or Economy Class, the taxpayer still meets their hotel bills amounting to Kshs600,000 or Kshs700,000 for two days. This does not meet our justification. In this country, people live by their status and somebody must have told some Kenyans somewhere that for you to be special, you must be extravagant. If you are extravagant, people will notice you the same way we have noticed the members of the Judicial Service Commission whereby in one year, somebody has already taken home almost Kshs18.7 million in sitting allowances. You can imagine what the Members of Parliament seated here have earned in seven months. You cannot even describe it. A few months ago when we were asking Madam Serem to reconsider our salary, the same fellows branded us all kinds of names like “m-pigs” and all sorts of insults. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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