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    "id": 836909,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/836909/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mosop, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Vincent Tuwei",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Vincent Kipkurui Tuwei",
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    "content": "advantage of opportunities. Kenya needs to be marketed by all of us, our leaders, athletes and tourism sector. It is my pleasure to have the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, diplomatic missions and embassies accorded support in order to enhance our position as a country that is very strong in Africa. Surprisingly, when we visited Austria, a country as small as South Sudan owns an embassy there, yet it is very young. However, we pay rent for ours and we are the mother country which recently helped South Sudan attain independence. When we spoke to the mission staff we become heartbroken. They complained of not receiving their salaries for over four months. One wonders whether this is a deliberate effort by the National Treasury or poor coordination between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Treasury in respect to delaying remittance of salaries to all the staff of missions abroad. All their monies according to budgetary provisions are done in Kenya Shillings but when they are remitted to them the exchange controls reduce these amounts. In most cases, what they had planned to do is never achieved. Therefore, the targeted projects which the missions wish to undertake are hampered by the deficit of remittances due to exchange rates. Some of the missions we visited have old cars which one feels ashamed to board. The vehicles are so old that one cannot believe an ambassador or a mission of that stature can use. It is high time we bought them new vehicles to enable their mobility and visibility in all aspects of their mission. When we were in Russia we found out that the Russian Government gives us 100 scholarships every year. We found students who were actually going to the mission to ask for assistance, but the missions were unable to help. When we talked to the people in the Diaspora and the students concerned, we realised that the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology does not assist them. Also, the assistance has to be done through the foreign missions because they are given scholarships free. We need to support them on how they can actually undertake their scholarly work in order for them to bring us knowledge from outside."
}