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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to contribute to this important Motion. Right from the outset, I would like to support the request by the Minister for Finance. First, we are approving the unforseen expenditure by the Government. Secondly, and most importantly, we are giving directions to the Minister as to what we will expect in the main Budget in June. Take, for example, roads. Over the weekend, I had a chance to travel to Nyeri and Kirinyaga districts in Central Province. I was shocked! The district where the President comes from has got some of the poorest roads in this country. Why would I want to be a President? I do not understand why those people are running around the country wanting to be presidents, if their roads will be like the type of roads that I saw in Nyeri. We were travelling in a parliamentary bus. We had to push our bus through muddy roads in Kirinyaga District, where Ms. Karua comes from. She is so strong here in Parliament and yet, she cannot get a road in her constituency! You can see in that constituency, tea leaves rotting in buying centres! You also see coffee beans going to waste! There are huge maize plantations! Those are the crops that pay the loans that we borrow from abroad, to construct roads all over the country. This Minister should seriously take into account the needs of Kenyans and provide infrastructure. The statement in this Parliament that areas that produce foreign exchange for this country should not be 862 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 24, 2007 provided the resources of this country disproportionately is wrong! It must be stopped. You must first give the people who provide before you provide those who do not provide. Go to Kericho and Nandi! Go to Meru! There are no roads in those areas. It takes three hours to drive from Mau Summit to Kericho Town, a distance of only 50 kilometres. That is an area that produces billions of shillings for this country. I wish that man will spend his energy to produce the way Mr. Nyachae produces. Talking all over the country every time will not help you. Go and put some cows, even those that are tick-bitten, in your area where the grass grows and rots. We need to contribute to our economic growth. For example, the areas that produce for this country have got polluted rivers. We must allocate more money for water projects. I wish I came from Rarieda where we would get Kshs350 million for water projects and we would not be denied an opportunity to implement those projects. I wish that money could be transferred to Kitutu Chache where the people will slaughter a whole bull for that hon. Member. The hon. Member for Rarieda should have done that for me."
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