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    "id": 146038,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/146038/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chepkitony",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13,
        "legal_name": "Lucas Kipkosgei Chepkitony",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute in support of this Budget. I would like to say from the outset that the Budget Speech was good. It was positive in many ways. The Budget was drawn in light of the bad economic situation in the whole world. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance did a good thing to increase devolved funds to the constituencies. This is one of the best aspects of promoting development. What needs to be done is to put structures in place, if they are not there, for the devolved funds other than the CDF. We have the CDF Committee which is the channel of utilising the CDF money. For other funds, we should know how the Member of Parliament or whatever committee that will be set up or whoever is in the local leadership to be involved in the supervision of the projects that will be as a result of the new devolved funds. I congratulate the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance for making the constituency and not the districts a centre for development. We have too many districts, but he chose the constituencies which are fewer than the districts. In future, the constituency should be"
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