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    "id": 933284,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": ". The Cabinet Secretaries came here, many were here. After that Session, the House was, to a great extent, convinced that it was the way to go and we needed to do so. It made sense to be the one stop shop et cetera . The challenge is two things: one, the way Government communicates. When they want something, you will hear them every day talking about it. However, when it is done, they go quiet. We just need a clear communication from the Ministry, what is happening, whether this issue of Kshs1 billion is true. If everybody is getting a card, and I know my little baby is not going to get a card and many people of a certain age would not get it, it translates to more than Kshs20 for each card. If you are doing procurement of whatever size, it will not come to that cost. You will do it at even Kshs5 even if it is a plastic card with a sim card and GSM. Mr. Speaker, the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations has summoned the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Security to appear before them next week. The Committee devised a way that all statements are collated. Once a month, the CS comes himself to respond to them. This is one of those which will be responded to, Sen. Prengei. These young people who we are using to conduct national exercises--- These national exercises have a budget. For example, the census had a budget. I think they have just been paid recently after doing all that work for that number of days. The Huduma Namba had a budget, but we hear the issues of payment. We want to understand what really the problem is. Why is it that a good programme or a programme the Government has sanctioned, the big things are paid first? However, the priority is never paying these young people who have gone out for a month toiling; some of them in dangerous circumstances, trying to get their own transport and then they are not paid. That, for me, is a key. However, in terms of the Huduma Namba, where the card is and so forth, that information will be in the House next week. I am sure the Chair can commit. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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