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    "id": 875523,
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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": "innovative ways so that you do your work. I do not want to do innovative ways to do my work. I want the Government, in a very straight-forward manner, to facilitate me to do my work. We are not begging or requesting. Every civil servant is facilitated to do their work. So, why should Members of Parliament… We are used to being bashed, but I think Members of Parliament should not take on that attitude that we want to look good. Even at our own expense? Excuse me, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have never seen a Parliament like this one where because we have such a need to look good to the public, we even starve ourselves of work that we should be doing for the public and not for ourselves. We must rethink. I am in the Budget and Appropriations Committee and right now that Committee is sitting to look at the issues that have been presented to it. Last year, it came forth and this year it has come forth. The Senate is asking for the same. They want to do their oversight role and the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) is considering giving them funds. What about us? What are we? Are we monkeys or hyenas? How do we do our work? I do not think we need to be apologetic about doing our work. I thank the Committee again. They have raised the challenges that we face in our oversight work, especially where you have fund account managers who go beyond the budget and use project money for administrative purposes. I have seen the Committee has suggested that punitive action be taken against those fund account managers. I do not care whether punitive action is taken against them or not. My business is to represent the people of Suba North. I was not sent to Parliament to punish people. If a fund Account manager has used more than is allocated for administrative work, the board must give back that money to my constituency. What they do with their manager is their business. I did not hire the manager. It is their problem. It is their business. If they want to pamper them, that is their problem. If they want to punish them, that is their problem. However, for me as Suba North, if you go beyond the money that is allocated for Suba North and use it for administration when it is for projects, you misuse or steal that money, the board must give it back to the Suba North people. We are a marginalised community. We have suffered years of marginalisation and what is due to us, if somebody misuses it, is up to the board. They must indemnify the people of Suba North. I can see that I have been given a warning and I had a lot more to say. I will leave it at that. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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