Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1527704,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1527704/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 108,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
        "slug": "bonny-khalwale"
    },
    "content": "billion for a programme that is not functional. On what do they want to expend these Kshs2 billion? This country is so rich. If we can afford the luxury of billions just disappearing at Afya House, imagine if that money would be pumped into our schools or hospitals. We have a great country, but we must do more as leaders. If you go to the road sector, projects that should have been done by county governments worth Kshs1.011 billion have been taken to the national Government to work on rural access roads. They have allocated Kshs65 million to Kajiado County. Why can they not allow Gov. Ole Lenku of Kajiado to have this Ksh65 million and he will decide using his county assembly, on which access roads will be done? It simply means they want him to use the paltry budget that he has to fix those access roads. There will be double accounting. The people at the Ministry of Roads and Transport will say those roads were fixed at Kshs65 million. It is only Parliament which can correct this anomaly. At this time, we happen to be the parliamentarians. The Senator of Mandera, on your way from Isiolo all the way to Mandera, have you ever in your life seen a Government project of constructing bus stages? These are modern stages being constructed. You go to Kigali in Rwanda, they have constructed proper stages, but we have none. Consequently, in this budget line number 1091175200 is for construction of such stages. How much money is set aside, a sum of Kshs203 million that will never be spent and that will make some people look richer than me. You are not richer than me I am telling you. You are so poor. You will go to your graves with a big debt of Kshs203 million and I will walk to heaven with no debt of stolen money. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we cannot allow the Executive to get away with this. How can they allocate Kshs203 million to construct bus stages and yet you have never seen one in Kilifi County? I do no know whether you have seen those bus stages in Migori County. I have served this country as a doctor in Kwale, Mombasa, Kisii, Nairobi, Kirinyaga and Kakamega counties, but I have never seen bus stages being constructed. This is theft. I want to conclude by speaking to the Kshs300 million, which again has been gutted from the devolved structure of Government. They are telling us they are going to use it on enhancing community resilience and water security. Please take this Kshs300 million to Turkana or let Turkana share with Marsabit, so that they give our children their water. These are children of God. Women in Turkana County spend their entire lives looking for water. They cannot be economically productive in their families and yet you have Kshs300 million that will sit here at the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation at Maji House. People are going to share it and our children will continue scavenging for water in Lodwar, Kibish and all those places, yet the resources of the Republic of Kenya can support this. I hope colleagues will do us a favour. If you want us to continue working for you, as a Committee of Finance and Budget, then please be here when we bring you the report of our work. Otherwise, I will not be coming to your meetings at 7.30 a.m., missing breakfast with my toothless daughter. When I see her toothless mouth as I eat, I feel very nice. However, you deny me that chance because I am coming to do this work, which looks like a thankless one. With those many remarks, I second."
}