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    "id": 1241556,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "On the other Statement request by Sen. Ogolla, I have seen it will be handled by the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources. I thought this was more of infrastructure. However, there is an element that I would also want to be included. It will be important to know who has been compensated. The Statement is asking for a list of those who are to be compensated. Let the House be informed on those who have been compensated and the amounts received. Let the House also be informed on the budgetary allocation that the national Government has set aside. This is because airstrips and airports are responsibility of national Government. In many cases because the national Government has failed in its function, a number of counties have ended up putting money to upgrade airstrips. We saw that in Mandera County, which decided to put money to upgrade Takaba airstrip. It has now opened up Mandera County in a way that the national Government could not do. The County Government of Homa Bay has done the same thing. It has put money in Kabunde Airstrip because the national Government has failed to live up to its functions and responsibilities that are in the Constitution. Let the Committee ask the relevant Cabinet Secretary to tell the House the budgetary allocation. How much has the national Government committed to expand Kabunde Airstrip and open up the potential of tourism in Homa Bay County and the Lake Victoria side, which has been ignored and seen as a den of mosquitos and tsetse flies rather than a frontier. We can encourage foreign visitors to visit and see the beautiful Ruma National Park and the beautiful beaches we have in Homa Bay and the neighbouring counties of Kisumu and Migori."
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