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    "id": 242215,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sambu",
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        "legal_name": "Alfred B. Wekesa Sambu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will request the Minister to give me two minutes because I am supporting it. I do not even want to talk about this because, for as long as we do not have a Budget Committee, what is the point of coming here to oppose or support? Nothing will change! Things will only change when we get the Budget Committee and a new Constitution. Unfortunately, those of us who are in this thing called ODM who were supposed to be looking for a new Constitution are now busy looking for the presidency; the same presidency which we opposed. What is the point? I will, therefore, speak about the District Roads Committees (DRCs) and the Kenya Roads Board Act. I hope that some of those officers will listen. The mess happens in the districts even if this money is allocated. So, first, we want the DRC to receive 24 per cent and not 16 per cent. That 24 per cent should go to the constituencies. It should be part of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). As it is now, the 16 per cent which comes through the DRC does not do any work. In Nandi North where Mr. Tarus and I come from, the DRC has not met because the District Roads Engineer who was there, an Eng. Achwala, and another one called Mr. Otula are the lords of the day. They tell us off in the meetings. There was another called Mr. Odek. When auditors went there, Mr. Odek claimed that a road, I think it is E301, had been gravelled and claimed Kshs1.2 million. Where is the murram? The road was not gravelled. There is nothing to show for it. A school bus that had just been bought overturned there. Yet when we are in a DRC meeting they speak in their language; Dholuo or something I do not know. So, we are saying that nothing will change until we get a new Constitution. If this nation will not give us a new Constitution, fine enough, they will go the Rwanda way. Do you think that some of us are going to just sit while our districts produce the resources and we pay taxes yet when it comes to allocating the resources we get zero?"
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