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    "id": 1392912,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1392912/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. The issue I wanted to raise is very important and Members should pay attention. The Financial Year 2023/2024 is three or so months shy of coming to a close. The performance of the budget is dependent to a larger extent on how money is released by the Exchequer and absorbed by respective ministries and State departments. Every budget cycle, we undertake public participation. Upon such participation, money is appropriated. I am talking specifically about public participation about the money in the Ministry of Roads and Transport, in the State Department for Roads. That money is budgeted for every other financial year. Not a single cent has been disbursed from the National Treasury to the Ministry for the financial year I am talking about or from the Ministry to respective agencies. For budget performance, the kind of employment generation we are talking about through the affordable housing project is the same kind that would be generated through road maintenance and construction. What is good for the goose is certainly good for the gander. If employment can come from affordable housing, it can similarly come from road maintenance and construction works. Therefore, what is stopping the National Treasury from releasing funds towards public participation for budgeted works in the State Department for Roads? This is an issue that concerns every Member here. Roads do not exist in the air. Roads are in the constituencies which we represent."
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