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    "id": 554877,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
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    "content": "About a month ago, a friend of mine told me that there was display of arms in Israel. When their team went there, they found about four or five governors attending and they were busy trying to buy bazookas and armoured cars. You would think they are coming to Kenya to start a war. The national Government should be left with the responsibility of buying and keeping the armouries. It should make sure that it is the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) that handles insecurity matters. The county governments should only handle development matters, and only participate as partners in sorting out the issue of insecurity in the country. Hon. Speaker, I am in the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. I am happy that we have finally solved the problem of which and what amounts of money should be allocated to the Ministry. However, I think this House needs to consider that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the face of Kenya and it needs to be allocated enough money. Our embassies abroad are dilapidated. We are in embassies which have been rented for the last 40 years and some of them are leaking. We need to develop, change and improve on how we present the face of Kenya. We should make sure that when our Kenyan brothers work either as ambassadors or officers, they are in a position and in an environment in which they are proud to be Kenyans. Finally, this Budget is a representation of the wishes of the House. I believe that is what the Budget and Appropriations Committee and all the other Departmental Committees of this House envisioned. Immediately the money is disbursed and development projects are being implemented, it is important for the Committee Members and especially Members of this House to visit some of them. This will enable us to say when we come back that we sent money to health centres and they are either being well developed or not and there are medicines or not. I hope that in due course, Kenya should become a better country for all of us and we will be proud of it. With those very many remarks, I support. I hope that within the next one or two years when we come back, Kenya will be a better place for all of us. Thank you."
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