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    "id": 1482975,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1482975/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. We are quite sad and I want to thank Hon. Anthony Oluoch for bringing this to our attention. We are reeling because of some judgment that was dictated by the Council of Governors (CoG) on NG-CDF. We have not forgotten. That is why we are saying that we need to amend the Constitution, so that can shield ourselves from some governors who believe that we should not have money for development. As all Hon. Members have said, when you visit the constituencies, what is done by the NG-CDF or KeRRA is visible. Ask the governors what they do with all those billions. A majority of them will say that they spend 60 per cent on recurrent expenses and only 30 per cent is left for development. That is nowhere close to the NG-CDF which is so little and does a lot. Time has come for us to look at the Kenya Roads Act, 2012. If we wish to amend it, we can take all the money from there. The distribution should be after KeNHA and KeRRA, and then the NG-CDF, so that the money for roads is not given to the governors. Let us make all the roads in the constituencies, whether they are classified as county or national Government roads. This is very important and we should start to make the amendments to this law."
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