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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Cecily Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I really want to congratulate this Committee – the chairman, the vice- chairman and the members – for a job well done because any Member of Parliament who has travelled abroad will hear officers in our missions informally raising complaints about what is not right in their workplaces. We have never had a formal channel that would enable us to discuss those matters on this Floor and make them an agenda item that needs to be pushed forward to the Executive. So, I feel this is a great opportunity. The Committee was right to see it necessary to take time to go to these embassies, listen to them, understand the challenges and bring a substantive report to this House. I would not want to repeat all the issues that the chairman has raised here. All of us have been to these missions and we have seen most of these offices are very old, dilapidated and poorly resourced in terms of both human and financial resources. More often than not, when we travel there our demands on them are so high that they are unable to meet them because they do not have the necessary resources. It was interesting to note that in New York City there is Uganda House and Nigeria House. I could not help but ask myself where we went wrong as a country such that we could not find it fit in our days in the 1970s when things were much easier 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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