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    "id": 1229796,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1229796/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I also support the Petition. The issue of water is very critical. It is so frustrating to those of us who come from constituencies where water scarcity is real and we do not have much spring water – especially for women who have to cut short their sleep very early in the morning. At 3.00 a.m., you find women going to fetch water. That is why when the NG-CDF Board insisted at one point that I should not use the NG-CDF money to drill water, citing devolution, I said that I am doing it in schools. They asked why I was giving water to the community. I said, “If you do not give water to the community and provide it to schools alone, people will destroy the water projects.” I have been using the NG-CDF that way in the period I have been an elected Member. I initiated so many water projects, courtesy of the NG-CDF. My last comment is that I do not understand why this Petition would even come here in the first place. We vote money to the counties but the functions that are devolved are not being funded. Then, again, we are required to set aside resources to fund the same functions. I urge the counties to further devolve the funds that we give them. They gain nothing by centralising the funds at the county level. They should decentralise the funds further, to the ward-level, to ensure that the services needed at the local levels are implemented. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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