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    "id": 218389,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/218389/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Syongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 316,
        "legal_name": "Zaddock Madiri Syong'oh",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to make my contribution to this Bill. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to take the first opportunity to thank and commend the Minister for bringing this Bill. I am personally convinced, like other colleagues, that this Bill will help to transform the situation of our roads infrastructure in our country. The previous situation was clearly totally unfeasible. It was a situation where the District Works Officer was the Authority-to-Incur Expenditure (AIE) holder and also the focal point for procurement of services to construct roads and awarding tenders for road construction in the district. The District Works Officer was also the one responsible for monitoring and certifying that jobs have been done and authorising payment. That arrangement was surely bound to fail. It is no wonder that if today you wanted to look for the real centre of corruption in the roads sub-sector, it is really at the district level. That is where it is all happening. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to thank the Minister for agreeing to increase the allocation for constituency-based roads by 20 per cent. In an earlier suggestion, we had actually recommended that it should have been increased to 24 per cent. This is because if you do count and add up the total kilometres of roads, those that fall within the constituency are surely the longest. The burden, therefore, in terms of roads construction and maintenance, truly lies in the constituency-based roads. June 13, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1785 Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to commend the Minister for looking at other"
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