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    "id": 987997,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/987997/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Katoo ole Metito",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13239,
        "legal_name": "Janet Marania Teyiaa",
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    "content": "Kenyans are calling for help. Definitely in the Statement that I laid on the Table of this House this afternoon, I said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation requires Kshs4.5 billion to respond to all these distress calls by Kenyans in foreign countries. We have about 60 missions globally and that money would have been spent or allocated to all those missions to be able to help Kenyans. Still, the same Ministry lost Kshs700 million apart from the Kshs439 million. They lost this money in projects that they were doing in the missions, be it renovations or construction of our missions. Geneva lost Kshs410 million and Pretoria also lost. That will occasion, as it was said by the Mover of the Motion, extra pending bills because we have contractual obligations on this money. So, definitely as we move to the next financial year, which is about two months from now, we will likely appropriate money to pay pending bills. The other one is on the ministries that the Committee I Chair oversees. The Ministry of Defence lost Kshs6.6 billion in the development vote. This money was for military modernisation, which is normally money allocated through what we call “export creditor facility”. This is money that has been contractually agreed on. Therefore, Kshs6.6 billion will be another pending bill for the next financial year. I understand the times we are in at the moment, but we needed to have targeted recurrent expenditure in other areas. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, we need to ring-fence money that has already been allocated to our missions. Otherwise, we will not be able to project the image of Kenya globally."
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