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    "id": 1421314,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kathuri",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Murungi Kathuri",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue is delayed funding from the Exchequer. Since we are planning as a country and a Government, why is there a delay in Exchequer release because most of these roads are funded through the Exchequer? Since the Cabinet Secretary says that he needs almost Kshs160 billion to clear all the pending bills, if he does not get it in the next one year, does it mean that we are again going to pay Kshs6 billion interest? The second one was about the maintainance of roads. My issue is that we have invested a lot on these roads. Once we fail to maintain them, we are losing that investment. For example, where I come from, we have a very busy road called Chogoria- Marimba-Meru Road. This road was built by the European Union (EU) to support the tea factories across that belt. However, it is never maintained. Once it rains, there is a lot of soil which piles on that particular road, and I have addressed it. Some of us have been around for some time and we have no vested interest on what happens when we make our request. Even though that we have no money for doing new roads and these other things, when some of us write to the Ministry requesting for support, even though we are not in the National Assembly, since we are representing people, when we make interventions through the Ministry for particular roads--- Mr. Speaker, Sir, you saw me walking on potholes in Meru County, along the Meru-Nairobi Highway because the road maintainance was poor. Some of us write to the Ministry requesting specific interventions and I request the Ministry today, on record, to be listening to us. We are the Njuri Ncheke elders. Once I ask the Cabinet Secretary or a Principal Secretary something, they must know that the issue is coming from the Kingdom of Meru."
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