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    "id": 746639,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kang’ata",
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        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "services. I probably need to seek your direction as to whether that proposal has the approval of the Budget and Appropriations Committee as required by our Standing Orders. Secondly, even if that happened, I do not belong to the school of thought that believes in expanding government. We have so many commissions and agencies that are gobbling Government resources. Those resources can be better employed to, for instance, help refugees directly. Thirdly, I do not see anything wrong with the status quo. I have not seen anything negative that the current arrangement has done with regard to the rights and interests of refugees. We have a department handling the issue of refugees. That department has been able to do a lot of work since 1963 to date. Kenya has been hosting refugees from several countries over the years. Creating a commission is really creating another government bureaucratic agency whose main bottom line will be to commit Government resources and waste them. I propose that we support the proposal by the Departmental Committee to avoid expanding government. Let us proceed in that manner as opposed to creating more commissions; otherwise we will end up with a bloated government. Even the constituents of the proposer of these amendments will benefit from the money that we will save."
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