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    "id": 1342355,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Chache North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Japheth Nyakundi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for the opportunity. I also want to support the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure on this issue. There is no way IEBC can make laws and budgets for this House. This House is the only one mandated to make laws and the Budget. We were not consulted on the meeting held in Naivasha and so we are not aware of it. Money for KeRRA, especially the 22 per cent that goes to our constituencies, cannot be reduced to 16 per cent. The 10 per cent was also reduced to 6 per cent. That is not the work of KeRRA. The Director- General of KeRRA should have appeared before the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure by now to answer questions. The Cabinet Secretary for Roads, Transport and Public Works, who is my good friend, is not supposed to make laws. There is a 10 per cent allocation which is supposed to go to counties if funds are needed for roads. We will not accept these reductions. Parliament’s mandate should not be given to any other person. The KeRRA has been doing a very good job on our roads in the last couple of years. There is no way that county governments can be given this money because we do not see the work that they do. We allocate a lot of money to county governments but we do not see the work that the money does. Even small roads that are one kilometre or two kilometres long that are supposed to be constructed by county governments have not been done. County governments have bought equipment that is supposed to construct roads but they are doing nothing. We will not accept the proposed reduction of the projected ceilings for KeRRA. I commend the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure led by the Member for Ndia. We will support them through thick and thin."
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