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    "id": 1019637,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1019637/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gatanga, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Nduati",
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        "id": 13338,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Nduati Ngugi",
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    "content": "overloaded lorries to use those roads. The Government uses a lot of money on those roads. I think we should find a way of how the national Government should be involved. We cannot leave that matter to the county governments. We must have responsibility. This is because we cannot develop infrastructure then it goes to waste. It is a high time the county governments adopted the NG-CDF model. If the NG-CDF uses Ksh39 billion per year, and most county governments maybe under Ksh10 billion, why can we not propose those projects? They are proposed in the county, approved here and when they get down to be executed, they are supervised from here. We are making a mess out of ourselves. It is high time we thought of how we are going to run those counties. In terms of procurement, there is no transparency at all – it is opaque. Every Tuesdays and Thursdays, the Government publishes various tenders of various works which is going to be undertaken. I was reading the Daily Nation Newspaper and the Government has advertised a lot of works to be undertaken this year. However, in the counties, you cannot see anything. Later on, you will hear that a county was undertaking a project worth Kshs100 million. How was it procured? Why was it not transparent? Those are issues that we need to address. Otherwise, as a country, we are going to lose a lot of resources to those counties. It is high time, if a decision was to be made, maybe, we go back to what used to happen as Hon. Nguna has said. In the past, the national Government would do hospitals and rural roads. Currently, it is very hard for you to see a rural road, nursery schools and ECD centers being done by a county anywhere in this country. As we struggle as parliamentarians building classrooms in our primary schools and high schools, nothing is happening. This is such that by the time kids join primary schools, they are not well grounded. Those are things that we need to consider. I support and we really need to relook at devolution. Thank you."
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