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    "id": 823023,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/823023/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Muhoroni, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Onyango Oyoo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "The reports that are constantly brought by the various delegations that go out, like what Hon. Machogu has brought today, would be best useful to this country. They would benefit us a lot so that we say that the money expended on such trips has been used well, if those reports would be implemented effectively. For several years, we have seen even the Head of State going to the United States of America. Look at the way the streets are well planned out there. Even the trees there are well tended. When our leaders come back, they shout for a short time that they want the environment conserved, and that they want the planning of towns and cities to be properly executed by the relevant authorities. After a few days, you find that Kenyans are just back to their normal lives. It is high time the Committee on Implementation made sure that once reports of such delegations are tabled here and adopted, they are properly implemented so that the public can benefit from such trips. I am saying so because the country, through the Exchequer, spends so much money, and more so on Parliament. If you compare the cost of running our kitchen, and the kind of services rendered, with how private companies manage similar facilities – for example, how BAT or East African Industries run their kitchens – you will be in a position to compare how much they spend vis- à -vis what we spend here. You will find that perhaps we spend more but the services here are wanting due to lack of proper supervision. Probably, in between, some monies that are meant to do specific things end up in people’s pockets. It is high time that we used the lessons that we learn from those trips to benefit the populace of this country. I second the Report…"
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