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    "id": 1383917,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1383917/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Busia County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Catherine Omanyo",
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    "content": "Kakurikit experienced El-Nino and lost their homes, animals and were unsettled. As I speak, nothing from the national level has reached them because the allocation for emergencies takes a lot of time to reach there. Sometimes, it goes to someone who is well-known to that department. All Kenyans deserve to be reached when such situations happen. If we were to tarmac all roads in Kenya, we would save a lot more than digging those roads in the villages or Nairobi. We keep digging and covering them with soil so that when the rains come again, we uncover and cover them. Can we not just think? Kenyans are no longer children. The countries that are growing in East and Central Africa are looking up to us. We should not be digging those \"dirt roads” as I call them because hizo njia ziko na uchafu . We should tarmac such roads even if it means starting with a few, so that Kenya can reach a place where we are among the developed nations. We also have teachers who are suffering, especially in Budalang’i, Busia County. They have been getting hardship allowance but it has somehow been stopped. Anybody being thrown to Marsabit, Marakwet or Budalang’i faces challenges beyond measure. If the hardship allowance has been stopped, it makes such people suffer double. How can a teacher like that invest in a child by giving their best to teach and prepare those young leaders and yet, they are stressed? This Budget is good but on the other side of the spectrum, we need to implement and use that money properly. Thank you. I forgot the Sugar Bill. I can see that I still have a minute. This is mainly for the people who come from the western region who mainly grow sugar-cane. The money that the Budget and Appropriations Committee has allocated to the sugar industry is not enough. Next time, kindly, double it. Thank you."
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