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    "id": 823085,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kandara, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Alice Wahome",
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        "legal_name": "Alice Muthoni Wahome",
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    "content": " Thank you very much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to say something regarding the services that we are being provided for by the Kenya National Assembly and Parliament as a whole. I add my voice to that of Members that have talked about office facilities that we have been using. You are aware that as soon as one gets elected, there are high hopes that they are coming to the Parliament of the Republic of Kenya. It becomes a shock for new Members. First and foremost, they come and they have to scramble for even office space in this Parliament. After scrambling for office space, it becomes a challenge where to find desks, who gives the services and where one accesses the facilities. We have to interact with the Office of the Serjeant-At-Arms. I do not know whether it is in my mind. Possibly, it is important to also look at the mandate of some of those offices where you have to seek support and assistance. It is in a manner that, kind of, humiliates or demeans a Member. You are expecting that your office will be cleaned. Sometimes you have to ask your personal assistant, if they are there, to look for who will hoove the office. When you go to the small areas that are very private, for a call of nature, you will find either tissue on the floor or stench meets you at the corridors. I get very surprised because I am sure some of the guests coming to Parliament also suffer because they may not know where to get some of those facilities, which are very key facilities. This Committee must address itself to those key facilities that a human being must be provided with to be able to manage themselves and to have an honourable day. It becomes a challenge. You sometimes see Members running across. You may not know where they are going, but it is sometimes because facilities here are not conducive. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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