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    "id": 1383914,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanjiku Muhia",
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    "content": "night shift, so that Kenyans can move to different destinations without suffering on matters of passports. As the Chairperson of the Committee on Regional Integration, I would not miss to speak about the Ministry of East African Community, ASALs and Regional Development, which has been allocated Ksh643 million. If my memory serves me right; previously, it was allocated around Ksh800 million and, therefore, it has gone down. I am assuming that the National Treasury and the Ministry of East African Community, ASALs and Regional Development are watching this debate. I am sure that the Chairperson is listening. I want to call this House to this conversation. A whole Ministry sits under the Ministry of Defence. How? They have their own budget. Therefore, the Ministry of East African Community, ASALs and Regional Development is like a subsidiary. The Ministry of Defence has many departments, including the National Intelligence Service (NIS). They take what matters to them as a priority while the East African Community agenda is not given priority. For the East African Community to be like the European Union (EU), we must make a deliberate move on matters integration. We cannot make it without investing on matters integration. I, therefore, call upon the National Treasury to rethink and find avenues to make this Ministry fully independent with its own budget. Should it remain in the Ministry of Defence, it should be given the money that it deserves. I come from a county which is agricultural, and I am excited that farm equipment, fertilisers and other avenues of agriculture have been considered. However, on matters of roads, Nyandarua County feeds Nairobi County in particular and its environs. However, we suffer on how to bring the food produce to those cities because of the poor roads. The Ministry of Transport has been allocated Ksh220 billion. In my view, this is little money. I call upon the Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Murkomen, to consider and prioritise the road projects that are incomplete. In Kipipiri Constituency, we have a road which can feed almost half of Nairobi - the Gita-Ndunyu-Njeru Road – whose construction has stalled for many years. The contractor comes for a week, we go to Inooro TV, take photos and congratulate him or her and when we wake up the following morning, the contractor has left. We also have the Gilgil-Machinery Road. They are the only two roads in Nyandarua County which are tarmacked. I, therefore, urge the Cabinet Secretary to consider prioritising the incomplete road projects. I also urge the Ministry of Education to consider the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVETs) by equipping the workshops. The National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) may build the workshops, but equipping them is still a challenge and our students only do practicals during…"
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