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    "content": "the centre of development. We should not have extra districts. The extra districts should be abolished. We should have constituencies being the districts. With regard to the money for roads which will be channeled through the CDF accounts, then the CDF Committees will only release the funds after being satisfied that the work has been done. However, the engineers will still play their role because they are qualified to do that work. The work will be complementary and the CDF Committees will satisfy themselves that work has been done before releasing money. We should develop other ways of working within the structures that are already in place. I would have loved to see the CDF money increase to about 5 per cent. At the moment it is about 2.5 per cent. It is not clear by what percentage the CDF money has been increased. It is not much though. Having gone through the Budget Speech, I have not seen much increase. It ought to have been increased to at least, 5 per cent, but I have not seen that. This Budget was being done in view of the bad local economy. Of late, some investors have threatened to reduce staff – some of them have actually reduced their staff because of poor performance. There is less consumption of the manufactured products and companies are even exporting few products now. The Budget should have gone further to support the existing investments. The investors ought to have been encouraged to continue doing business in Kenya and maintaining the existing staff. We know many industries in the country have been complaining about the VAT refunds which have been slow in refunding. We should improve on the refunds so that they do not take long. Some people have waited for more than a year to get the refunds. Others have threatened to move to other countries to do business there. So, the Ministry should do something to improve on the refunds meant for the investors. With regard to infrastructure, it is good that we have a fairly good amount of money for our infrastructure. That is Kshs140 billion. This money will mainly be used to improve our roads and railway line. We should have a balanced development of our roads. We should cover all the areas in this country. We should not concentrate in one region. We should spread the construction of roads across the country. We requested for a road from Marakwet District Headquarters to Iten District Headquarters to be constructed. Some money was allocated four years ago and the road was constructed from the other end but the project stopped. I thought that once the Government starts a project, it should continue to the end. However, what surprised us was that the road was tarmacked from the Marakwet side and not up to Iten District Headquarters. We have been asking for money to be allocated towards the completion of this road, but nothing has been provided. We wonder why the money for the development of infrastructure has been increased and yet it does not reach other places.So, the criteria for allocation of money for roads needs to be reviewed so that it is spread all over."
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