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    "id": 242186,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musila",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": "I beg your pardon, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. We do not want to tell untruths to our people that we are voting money to improve their roads, when we are not. We want the Ministry to prevail upon the engineers to stop using those funds the way they want. That way, we can improve rural roads. We recommended in this House that those funds could do a better job if they were utilised through the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). We can already see what the CDF is doing. If all the constituencies are like mine, I would like to submit to the Minister that money that is being sent to the constituencies by the Kenya Roads Board is not serving the purpose that is meant to serve. It can only serve the purpose if the funds are audited. When you ask the Mwingi District Roads Engineer what roads he has done, he tells you that he did certain roads, but for the whole financial year, a grader never passed through some of the roads that he claims to have done. Where did the money go to? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if this is the trend, we will not develop this country equitably as we intend to. Again, I want to insist that we must find a way of allocating resources in this country. Money should not go to certain areas and not to others. For example, in the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, we have seen money being allocated to areas where there is water and not to areas where there is no water. I take it that we have received no money in Mwingi District and I beg my good friend, the Minister, to re-allocate the Kshs7 million to another district, so that we can say that we received zero amount of money in this year's Budget."
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