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    "id": 998502,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Members have spoken on the need for clearing pending bills and our Committee has given recommendations. I think the Executive should take this more seriously. We had also suggested that a lot of the stimulus response to COVID-19, especially the ones aligned to the NG-CDF should use the constituency as a focal point. This is because, when you look at the stimulus package that was done in the Kibaki era, some of them are talked about up to now. At times, people wonder why the current MPs do not do much work. They do not realize that some of the work done then was because of the stimulus package that was given by the former President Hon. Mwai Kibaki and Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga. So, in the same manner, if we want to ensure effective results, we should use that as a unit. The other issue raised here is on the allocations to public participation. One of the things I happen to know as a Member of the BAC is that when you are talking about public participation and especially because of COVID-19, the public was supposed to respond to the advert by Parliament. In many of the areas, people did not respond and, as a Committee, we were then constrained in terms of work that we can do. In some areas, if the public asks for a classroom, you cannot give them a factory. In terms of public participation, the Committee was constrained and it could only do what the public requested. Finally, the Hon. Member from Nyandarua was talking about the need for expanding rural electricity because of our children who cannot study online. I would like to encourage the Ministry of Education to look at community-based approaches to education, especially in rural areas without electricity and cannot go online. Perhaps, we need to have village caucuses for children with retired or volunteer teachers who are unemployed. This has not been budgeted for and is one of the areas we should have looked into. The reality is that it might go up to September or beyond before our children can go back to school. Even though we do not want to look at a Supplementary Budget, maybe, this is something that should come up in the first Supplementary Budget."
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