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    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the Motion on the Floor. Before that, allow me to join my colleague Hon. Babu Owino in welcoming the youth leaders who have come to Parliament today. Ms. Tabitha is one of our strong young women leaders in this country. She is here together with her colleagues. Welcome to Parliament. I see her joining us in the next Parliament. Back to the Motion, I support this Motion as ably tabled by the Chairperson, Hon. Wamboka. Hon. Wamboka is a first-time Member of Parliament who chairs a very important Committee of this House, that is, the Public Investments Committee on Governance and Education. What his Committee has done is a testament that this House has talent, competence and diversity. It does not matter whether one is a first-timer or a fourth-term Member. All Members are capable of giving us the results that we want as a House. I thank Hon. Wamboka for demonstrating that being a first-time Member of Parliament is not inability. This Report is comprehensive and educative. The Report lists several Government agencies which I did not know existed before this Report was tabled here. I was not aware of agencies like the JKUAT Noodles Limited, the National Council for Science Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI), and many more. These agencies are too many and one wonders why they should not be amalgamated. For instance, the NACOSTI and CEMASTEA should be merged. The first thing we should do as a House is to amalgamate all these agencies. Secondly, the Report has information about agencies that have not completed their development programmes, especially construction projects. An example in this Report is the KNEC which has been constructing a project for more than 37 years. Since I joined this Parliament, and as a Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee (BAC), we have been appropriating resources for this infrastructure. Now that Hon. Owen has been defending the Government against this Report, I ask him to ask the President to revive the stalled projects. I have seen the President reviving and recommissioning projects commissioned by Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta in the Mount Kenya Region. He should come back to Nairobi and revive these projects too. We have allocated resources to these projects and they are never completed yet the Government is aware of this. We want to see the President do that from next week. Consultancy is one of the avenues of corruption in Government. Ministries such as the National Treasury…"
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