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"speaker_name": "Bumula, DAP-K",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Wanami Wamboka",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Our lady Members of Parliament, sisi tumewatetea sana. Mungekaa tukabiliane na haya maneno sisisote. We are the National Assembly. We make laws and appropriate funds. We are the ones who sit down… Our able Chairman of the Budget and Appropriation Committee is here. We are the ones who decide where money goes and who gets what. We have been engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with the government on the matter of RLMF. We have raised points of order on this Floor, and we have been given so many promissory notes, but nothing is working. The Kenya Roads Act is very clear on who gets what and who should not get what. As we speak, it is the rainy season, and our roads are bad. The RLMF belongs to the people of Kenya. It is appropriated for the roads of the people of Kenya. It is important to note that the roads that matter are visible, and people use them daily. In the villages, there are the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) roads. As we speak, they are impassable. The rains have washed them away. The Executive has continued to play games with us by giving us piecemeal amounts of money. The government has not released money to the ground. In view of that, I, therefore, move that we suspend the sitting…"
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