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    "id": 967946,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I conclude there is the issue of the properties owned by Kenya in foreign missions. My Committee has had occasion to visit few of these missions abroad. You find that in cases where the country owns certain properties which it bought many years ago, those properties have been left to degenerate and most of them are in deplorable states as we speak and yet we continue to spend money renting houses for ambassadors and embassy staff. A case in point is the Kenya House in New York which is supposed to be the Kenyan Ambassador’s residence. It is such a magnificent house standing on about three quarters of an acre in an upmarket suburb of New York City in the US. It has been unoccupied for the last eight years and yet the country continues to pay rates. In America rates are very expensive. The country continues to pay rates for the degenerating building and also pays rent for the ambassador and other officers at the same time. This basically demonstrates a lack of focus and insensitivity on the part of those tasked with such a responsibility.This basically demonstrates lack of focus and sensitivity on the part of those who are tasked with the responsibility of managing public funds and we can go on and on. The kinds of things we have witnessed are like a Hollywood movie. On the issue of public debt, I was amused this afternoon to hear a colleague attempting to advocate for the formation of an Ad hoc Committee to address this matter. This is not necessary because the facts are there and they speak for themselves. 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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