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    "id": 875522,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would want to say that if you actually look at the oversight committee that has been put it the Bill, that committee has the least amount of money. In fact, I do not even want to say it has money because there is no money allocated to it. How do you expect that Committee to move? Again, it is the Members of Parliament who pay the committees to do the oversight role. I know that the media love it when they bash Members of Parliament, but having bashed Members of Parliament, it is also important that we are facilitated to do our work. I think Members of Parliament should not be apologetic about doing the mandate for which they were hired by the public to do. So, sometimes, we actually sacrifice even the work that we have been employed by the public to do in order to look good. I have no time to look good to anyone if I want to do work for the people of Suba North. Because of that, if the Committee is not going to bring an appropriate amendment, I will bring an amendment that will enhance our oversight roles and put money into that oversight role. It is only in the National Assembly where you are expected to work miracles in doing your work. When I worked for the Government of Kenya at the Attorney-General’s Office, I remember one time when they were not able to get me a vehicle and I went and saw the Solicitor-General. He gave me a Volvo to go to Thika. What about my role as a Members of Parliament? Even when I was going to Thika, I was being given money for staying there overnight and lunch. When I am a Member of Parliament, I am told: “But you come from Suba North. Go and eat.” It is as if those Suba North people wait for you as you arrive and they tell you: “Here is the food. Eat.” Actually, you do the opposite. You feed people because of the levels of poverty that is there. I will have no apology bringing an amendment to facilitate my work. It is very difficult especially when you are trying to do your work straight because then you are expected to find 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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