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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, it is good to indulge that Member because he was simply seeking attention. I have the Leader of the Minority Party attention and I do not need his. The question of pending bills in this Appropriation Bill is simply being addressed by what we did during the Committee of Supply. I must thank all the Members who stayed until about 10.00 p.m. to supply resources to the MDAs. Indeed, in this Appropriation Bill, what we supplied to our MDAs is true. For instance, the largest pending bills are in the roads sector. All Members in this House will tell you that in their constituencies, either there is a road that was to be constructed and is yet to be started, or a road that was constructed but stalled because of the pending bills. The quantum of those pending bills, if Members cared to listen to the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, was close to Ksh1 trillion. This means that half of the resources we generate in terms of ordinary revenue can only go towards the settlement of pending bills in the roads sector. Amidst all the constraints we have with our resources, the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the House last week in the Committee of Supply supplied a quantum of Ksh250 billion shillings to the roads sector to help in dealing with pending bills. Hon. Speaker, with time, you will see the exchequer releases hopefully after the month of July. If we agree with the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, we can finish the Third Reading of the Finance Bill today or tomorrow. Then, we will generate adequate revenue to unlock the issue the Leader of the Majority Party rightly raised about pending bills. Ksh250 billion shillings to the roads sector is not enough even after rationalising all the committed road projects with a figure of about Ksh730 billion. Hon. Speaker, I just want to inform the House and the Hon. Leader of the Minority Party that we are not dealing with new road projects. We are dealing with those already committed road projects. We either commit the entire of our development expenditure to the road sector without dealing with anything else, or we do what the Budgets and Appropriations The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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