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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, a lot of the officers who travel First Class, if you ask them to travel with their families, you will be surprised. The First Class will disappear immediately and they will quickly join Economy Class like everybody else. But when they are travelling on taxpayers’ money, where nobody is watching, they do so First Class and other higher classes. I think we are being called upon to really be economical in travel; I support this Motion. But even more importantly in this era of ICT, I also want the Mover to go further and question travel. Do we really need to travel that much? We are in a country celebrating 50 years of Independence and every other day we run to the USA and Europe to benchmark--- All manner of words are used to justify unnecessary travel. This is an era of ICT; in this era, there can be teleconferences and online conversations. I am not even sure that we need to travel as much as we do. Fifty years after Independence, we have enough lessons of our own. If you want to learn about truth, justice and reconciliation, you probably do not need to go to South Africa. We have got enough lessons right here at home, which can help us to make better laws and policies. We also need to question some of the travels that occasion a lot of expenditure. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is also important to note that in First Class--- I have had occasion to peep into first class and what I saw there were princes and princesses. You wonder why public officials would like to travel together with children of kings and queens in this world. It is time everybody accepted their positions in life. If you are in a royal group, and you belong to the Economy Class, on taxpayers’ money, please, quickly take your position in life; you belong to the Economy Class. This idea of making oneself a prince at the expense of taxpayers’ money need not be supported. Even as I look at this Motion and support it, as a county Member of Parliament, I do have many other demands. For example, we see budgets for water and drugs for diseases like diabetes, cancer and others being slashed. We see really critical budgets and the amount of money that is used on one ticket; this money should really be spent under those critical budgets."
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