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    "id": 114431,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Let me quickly touch on constituency matters. I am particularly concerned with Government plans and implementation of programmes. Take the case of the roads’ money. We are being given roads money when it is raining and you cannot do any road. The roads are terrible! If that money was given a month or so ago, we would have done the roads so that, when the rains come, at least, the roads can be passable. But, right now, you are given Kshs16 million and it is splashed over newspapers and in the media but, you cannot use it. It is money that has to be idle until the rains subside, and we do not know when. I think this Government needs to be serious. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is the issue of economic stimulus programme that my colleagues talked about. The Economic Stimulus Package was supposed to stimulate economic growth for 2009/10. Up to now, it has not been implemented. Which economy are we stimulating? Definitely, we have not done enough. A lot of Government programmes and planning was based on the timely release of those funds so that the economy could achieve the desired economic growth. When the Budget was read, many of my colleagues applauded the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance but I was a bit skeptical. If you can refer to the HANSARD, I am the only MP who expressed reservations. Many of us were happy but we were being taken for a ride. This time, we need to tell the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance to stop playing politics with the Budget and come up with a realistic Budget. If he wants to devolve funds, let him devolve funds through structures like the CDF that can implement them effectively and timely. We do not want structures that are created after money has already been budgeted for and allocated. There was the issue of computers. I do not know what happened with those Tata buses which I said I do not want because they will not move in my constituency. There are no roads in my constituency. What has happened to the money that he allocated for the buses? What has happened with the money for interns? What is stopping the Government from hiring teachers? Why can we not hire even 100 teachers on permanent basis? Nyanza is doing poorly because it has the highest shortage of teachers in this country and yet people think that nowadays people in Nyanza are lazy. It is the same people and generation. It is only that we do not have staff to teach in some of our schools. The schools are understaffed. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance is keeping the money in his Ministry waiting for a court case which will probably never end. Since the court case is only touching on the interns, if that money is taken to hire teachers on permanent and pensionable basis, there will be no problem. The trade unions will withdraw the case. I beg to support the Motion."
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