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    "id": 94380,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/94380/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. M.M. Mahamud",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Energy",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 373,
        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
        "slug": "mohammed-mahamud"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to support the Vote of this Ministry. This Ministry is the number one public relations company for this country. Our envoys all over the world do a good job for this country. Kenyans must be educated to understand that role. Quite a number of times, we think that people are there to enjoy themselves without understanding the role they play. I want to tell you that those women and men who are all over the world are doing a good job for this country. I want to appeal to the Ministry to increase representation all over the world. Many countries are doing their best in their foreign policies. Sometimes, we think that we have a lot of missions, but they are not many. I am happy that recently, we opened a few more missions and I encourage the Minister to pursue that line, so that we can have more missions. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, funding of missions under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is very important. Members of staff in our missions sometimes suffer when funds are delayed or they do not have enough funding. Imagine when you are not able to pay rent for the chancery and the residences of the ambassador and the staff. It is important that we really take this matter seriously and give this Ministry proper funding. People should not consider the allowances of the staff as luxury. Members of our diplomatic missions who live abroad must live within the standards of the people who live there as mentioned by the Chairman of the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations."
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