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    "id": 919570,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/919570/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyeri Town, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ngunjiri Wambugu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13460,
        "legal_name": "Martin Deric Ngunjiri Wambugu",
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    "content": "It is very unfortunate that many times, the public has no idea what Parliament has been doing the whole time unless we have a conversation about remuneration. For example, it would pass as a headline that MPs spent the whole day discussing their salaries and yet the truth is that, MPs would have sat three days a week for three months. The one day that we talk about salaries is the day we make it to the headline news. We have passed laws; we have made amendments and done a lot of work for two or three months. But every now and then, the only thing that the public gets to hear is that we discussed remuneration. That is why, in my opinion, it is going to be critical to establish a communications department the same way the Executive has a Government Communications Department, and the same way JSC creates its own communications capacity. It is going to be important for the Commission to make a strategic and deliberate effort to communicate to the public not just when we have a crisis or a problem, but consistently and all the time."
}