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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you for the opportunity to address this august House. I support the Bill on the increased allocation of Kshs645 billion. I will also pick up from where the Senator has just left off on the issue of the water pan in Changara, which was fully funded by the World Bank, yet nothing happened. I took action. I brought the people together, and we managed to get the Senate Committee, of which Sen, Beatrice is a Member, to visit the site. They saw the situation first hand. If they had just crossed the boundary into Bungoma, they would have seen a similarly funded system that is functioning. In Busia, it never worked, so we hope to get to the root of the issue. Over and above that, the World Bank sent about Kshs200 million to Busia in the past two budgets. I have done a follow-up. In fact, the group I assigned to do some auditing just finished and gave me a report yesterday. None of them is functional, but all the money has been depleted. The money is not in the account. In short, I am just saying that Busia is an economic crime scene that needs serious attention from the Senate. It is a total crime scene. Now, going back to the Motion on the Floor on the question of division of revenue, I support the figure of Kshs465,001,459,673 that has been recommended. However, that is as far as I support, because it is an improvement on the last allocation. I"
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