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    "id": 242538,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. Okundi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 344,
        "legal_name": "Philip Okoth Okundi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to oppose this Vote for the Ministry of Roads and Public Works. I am very bitter, indeed, because I know how we are suffering and yet we are paying tax like anybody else in this country. If you look at the Development Expenditure for the districts starting with Murang'a, Nyandarua, Nyeri and all the way down, you will find that we are talking in terms of billions of shillings. If you look at allocations for other districts, you find that the figures are really a joke. For example, Rachuonyo District in Nyanza Province has been allocated Kshs4 million for Development Expenditure. Roads in Homa Bay District, which is my home district, are really terrible. I have written a letter to the Minister on this issue. The District Commissioner (DC) has also written to the Minister and has told him that the state of roads in Homa Bay are continuously making the people to become hostile to the Government. I believe that the Government has a duty to share the national cake fairly to all parts of the country because everybody pays tax. People pay taxes even through the food they eat. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Rongo-Homa Bay Road is tarmacked and should be maintained through the Roads Maintenance Levy. A mere Kshs7 million will do nothing. There are now craters on this road. We reject this Kshs7 million. In the 2003/2004 Budget, Kshs50 million was allocated to tarmack the Kendu Bay-Homa Bay-Mbita Road. This road has been studied and planned so many times. Money has been allocated for the tarmacking of this road, but it is always returned to the Treasury. This year, a mere Kshs7 million has been allocated for this road. I, as the Member of Parliament for that area, will not accept this. I think our taxes are being used somewhere else. This is not fair in a political regime. A mere Kshs3 million has been allocated for roads in the whole of Suba District, which is one of the poorest districts in the country."
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