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    "id": 1522772,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1522772/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "If we have National Government Roads Class A, let us know this is NGA. If we have a county government road, let it be CG Class D, A or B. We should name those roads so that these Members of Parliament are not bashed by their constituents because we are the ones they are close to. They keep bashing Members of Parliament over roads that do not concern them because they have no budgets for them. The governors who have money for maintaining these roads are busy buying chicks, maize flour and ndengu to give as freebies to constituents to excite them for political expediency. It is high time they are called out. Kenyans must begin reading the Controller of Budget reports to see that counties are not devoting money to development. That is why we honestly cannot satisfy their insatiable greed for more money to steal. We must maintain our position to offer meaningful oversight over KeRRA, KURA and Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) to deliver on maintenance and construction of roads. They assume that this money is managed by Members of Parliament. None of these 290 Members of Parliament representing constituencies, 47 women or 12 nominated Members manage this money. It is managed through the regional offices of KeRRA, under the Director- Generals of KeRRA and KURA. Members of Parliament do not come near it. They do not even sit in the procurement committees. Our only interest is proper and meaningful oversight for delivery of services to Kenyans. 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."
}