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    "id": 1456693,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1456693/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kinangop, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kwenya Thuku",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
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    "content": "I will give a case study of my constituency. You know in politics you have to think globally, but act locally because, at the end of the day, we represent people at the grassroots. A road in my constituency called Ndunyu Njeru-Ihithe Road has been launched by two presidents. Two contractors have come and left because they are not paid. The current contractor is owed to the tune of Kshs7 billion because he has other roads and there is no single allocation. That road cannot be built using Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) money that is the 22 per cent and the 10 per cent that we get, because the road is contracted. Therefore, our people are suffering big time and there is nothing that can be done. I believe that we have to be deliberate on this matter. Let us decide on which programmes we will fund or deprive funding in this financial year or the next. Let us deal with all pending projects so that we complete them and get value for money. This is because, for those roads that have been started and abandoned, going back to site will mean that we have to re-start afresh and that would mean we are going to lose a lot of money. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we need to rethink the issue of infrastructural funding so that we do not start any new project until we are done with the projects that are ongoing. Our budget has a huge hole whereby we have to borrow; and this borrowing, has sunk this country. We are almost getting to an abyss (a very deep whole). As much as we are happy that in the last financial year, we were able to bring down our debt stock from Ksh11.5 trillion to Ksh10.5 trillion, that did not happen because we paid. It happened because the exchange rate worked in our favour and therefore, our shilling healed. Going forward, we must rethink our borrowing strategy. We have had a conversation of having a treasury single account so that all our monies that are lying in The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}