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    "id": 1077323,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1077323/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "Secondly, we are allocating these funds not as campaign money. We know we are going into a campaign year especially for governors in their first terms and seeking second terms. Let them not use this money as campaign tools. Let them finish the white elephant projects that they have started. Any unfinished projects should be completed before starting new ones. This is because there is a contention, now that we are in a campaign year for governors who want to be re-elected or who have their preferred candidates, to start spreading these finances thin but widely, so that they can appease the electorates. So, we caution them that this money should be used prudently and especially in completing uncompleted projects. As we support this formula of allocating resources, the Chairman, BAC, had elaborated on how we allocate and divide these funds among the counties. We support, but I have reservations. According to me, irrespective of the various parameters used to determine how these funds are allocated, we know it is population that follows development and not vice versa. There is a higher population in Nairobi simply because of development. There is good infrastructure in terms of roads, good hospitals, national schools, universities and even Parliament which sits in Nairobi. If we develop any part of this country, we will off load the high population that is making part of our country to have the largest slums in the world. We should continuously let development and resources follow our people."
}