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    "id": 228907,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Omingo",
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        "legal_name": "James Omingo Magara",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what I am saying is this: I come from South Mugirango. Nyatike is my home. I know that the poles are lying there four years down the line. There is no power supply and yet, a man you poached from here has already been given power supply. That is not right. It is unfair and unacceptable under the rules of natural justice. Another issue is that I got a road in Gucha - that is Item No.616 - Kamagambo-Nyasembe- Itago Road to be developed. The design for that road was done. But this Government, because it thinks that I am incorrect with its position, has re-allocated that money. I want to ask the Minister for Roads and Public Works to tell Kenyans and the South Mugirango people what authority he has to remove items on the Vote and re-allocate them to their preferred areas? It is illegal and an abuse of office. That is subjecting other people, who pay taxes, to ridicule. The Kamagambo-Nyasembe Road was allocated Kshs4 million. But it is no longer there. Some hon. Members have been given money for the construction of foot paths in their areas when design works for my area are \"sitting\" in their offices. That is segregation in matters of resource allocation. We should devolve resource allocation to the CDF level, so that I can allocate money without hon. Kiunjuri telling me to wait. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of rural electrification, it is the same thing we are talking about. There are programmes that are supposed to be commissioned, for instance, Nyatike REP and Tabaka, which is still stalled, but nothing has been done. This is what we are calling selective application or misuse of office and cannot be accepted in modern society: We require to be fair to each other. Insecurity is also an issue. You cannot fight insecurity when you do not have a forensic science laboratory. The youth who you round up after committing crime have no identity cards. So, even if you refer them, they will give you a pseudo name and you will never access them. We require the youth to be given ID cards as a simple way of accessing criminals. Many stones are unturned because you deny youths ID cards. They do not vote for Orange or whatever it is. However, you cannot compromise the security by denying the youth ID cards. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Youth Enterprise Development Fund has come at an opportune time when the Government must campaign. However, we want to tell them that the youth of this country are actually alert and are aware of their goals. On the same basis, the youth who are supposed to open accounts to access the money have no ID cards yet we are telling them that the money has come; Kshs1 million per constituency and Kshs790,000 to be distributed through financial institutions. The financial institutions are not in the rural areas and the youth do not have ID cards to open accounts so that they can access money. So, that money is going again to the club business of old guys who enjoy themselves. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we prepare in the year of elections, time has come where people must stand up to be counted. Why African states have failed---"
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