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    "id": 1341914,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise also to support the Report and thank the Committee because it has been bearing the brunt of these issues. I thank the Chair and the Committee for acting on them. The issue of KeRRA was well thought out. These percentages were thought out for a reason and that is why they were not capped on an amount, but on a percentage. That way, however the money goes, these percentages appreciate at the same time. Some of the constituencies that we represent are very vast. Like my constituency is 1,348 km2. I know some constituencies like in the northern region that are in thousands of square kilometres. The one issue that has always united these constituencies is the rural roads. if we even dare to take even an inch even the 22 per cent and 10 per cent as it is right now is not sufficient to cover our roads. This exposes the soft belly of what devolution was supposed to do, what it has done and what it should have done by now. We are in the third generation of governors, but if you ask the Members in this House or constituents whether they can show proper infrastructure and projects by counties, they cannot compare to the ones that are done by KeRRA and the ones that are done by the National Government-Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). The amounts that were given by the Exchequer to county governments this year were almost Ksh400 billion that went to all the counties versus Ksh44 billion that goes to the NG- CDF. If you go to the constituencies of these Members, you will see a KeRRA road, you will see a NG-CDF project that is standing and we cannot make a mistake of trying to plough back that. 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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