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    "id": 1352718,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Rural, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Mwalika",
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    "content": "The register should also have regions where these projects are being implemented. We may be taking a lot of loans but they are only used in particular regions. What about the distribution of these projects funded by donors that all of us are contributing in repayment? I will give you an example. I come from the Lower Eastern Region, and since Independence, we have only had two big projects: the Kibwezi-Kitui-Mbondoni Road and the Thwake Dam, which are incomplete. I hope the Chairman of the Committee will go back to the last 10 years or so and give us a report of the total amount we got as loans, how the money has been utilised, and the impact of these projects on the welfare of this country. As the Report alludes to, the slow disbursement is mostly because of lack of budget allocation. That is something we need to lay before the National Treasury. We have passed a law here which requires that we look at the loans that are taken. Before Government officials go ahead and sign, the loans should be tabled in this House to tell us where they are going to get the funds so that there are no delays in disbursement. We also need proper planning for the loans. We cannot be taking loans because somebody is giving them to us. We have that problem. We have quite incompetent negotiators in the Government. If they hear there is money to give as a loan, they run there without even reading the requirements for the loan. At the end of the day, we take loans with high interest rates without knowing what we are going to do with it."
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