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    "id": 192688,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/192688/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. K. Kilonzo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 172,
        "legal_name": "Julius Kiema Kilonzo",
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    "content": ". We want to see subsidies being given to the common mwananchi . If the \"haves\" do not consider the plight of the common man, then let them know that the future of this country is bleak. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also listened to the Minister when he talked about the fruit processing plants which he intends to put up in several places. I was very pleased to hear him mention a district called Kitui where \"yours truly\" comes from. This is an area where mangoes, tomatoes, potatoes and many other fruits are found in abundance. They rot due to lack of these processing plants. I would like the Minister to consider putting up a fruit processing plant in Kitui District. In the same breath, I listened to the issue of roads that the Minister talked about. There is only one class \"B\" international road which runs from Ethiopia through Maua-Mwingi- Kitui and through Kibwezi. The only section of this road which remains untarmacked and yet this is a very busy road, is from Kitui to Kibwezi so as to connect to Mombasa Road. I want the Minister to know that this is the only class \"B\" road which needs to be tarmacked. I would appreciate if the Minister allocated funds for the tarmacking of this road. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have seen money allocated to some departments of the Government like the NSIS which was allocated Kshs8 billion. This is not the time of the Cold War where we had the East and the West segments fighting. This is a unipolar world where the only interest we have is to uphold sustainable interests of a nation. I do not understand why we allocate the NSIS, which has less than 2,000 members of staff, Kshs8 billion. What is the Kshs8 billion going to be used for? Is this money going be used by the Government to intimidate its opponents? What usefulness does this money have when it is put in this Government organ? The Minister should transfer these monies to sectors like that of water. The allocation given for irrigation was very negligible; Kshs1 billion. I would like to see the Minister allocating more money to the Ministry of Water and Irrigation and the Ministry of Agriculture among others, which can enhance food production. With those few remarks, I support."
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