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    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you will realise that securing a place such as this one in the middle of the CBD is not very easy. Security experts will tell you this. So, that is now water under the bridge. Maybe in future, we could think of relocating and turning this facility into something else. For the time being, let us make the best out of what we have. The Report that this Committee has produced is good and it is going to inform a lot of improvements. But even as we make these improvements, it is incumbent upon ourselves as Members and support staff that we use these facilities prudently, carefully and efficiently. This is because, at the end of the day, they remain facilities purchased or procured using public funds. Let us make prudent use of them as if they are items or facilities that we purchased using our own money in our homes. Where there is need for repairs or maintenance, let us do them on time before a lot of damage is done so that we can save taxpayers’ money. Again, it is my hope that once the facilities are improved and modernised in the manner that has been proposed by the Committee, the output will also be commensurate to the quality of facilities. The output here means legislation, budget-making and oversight. That must be visible. I do not have a way to measure this. Otherwise, we cannot continue to modernise facilities at taxpayers’ expense in vain. We must be able to show the value for money. What is the value for money in these improvements we are talking about, Hon, Machogu? Your Committee must ask itself that. What is the value for money that the public is going to derive from this modernisation? That is a challenge I throw not only to the Committee, but to all of us."
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