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    "id": 135124,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/135124/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Oburu",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, investment in those areas need not necessarily come from the Government. I was an employee of the Government. I used to be a civil servant. I used to work in the Ministry of Planning, where I was in charge of the Department of Arid and Semi-Arid Lands development. At that time, we attracted a lot of funds from donors, because donors are very keen on the development of ASAL areas. In fact, in Turkana District, the Norwegians were funding almost all departments of Government Ministries to the extent that the Government became negligent. The Government was not allocating any funds to that district. It was not supporting a scheme where donor funding was sustaining it. Government departments were responsible for implementation and providing counterpart funds, so that when the donors left, the Government could easily take over the programmes. This almost led to a collapse of projects when the Norwegians withdrew, or were chased away, from Turkana District."
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