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    "id": 246515,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/246515/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Awori",
    "speaker_title": "The Vice-president and Minister for Home Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 290,
        "legal_name": "Moody Arthur Awori",
        "slug": "moody-awori"
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Speaker. I was talking about the CDF and I said that from it money flows to the rural areas. When we were constructing a health centre in Funyula, we bought cement, timber and steel. We were charged 16 per cent VAT. Now, that cement had already had VAT paid on it. So, it was double taxation and I would like to request the Minister to look into it. It reduces the amount of money available to the constituency to carry out projects. The second thing I would like to say with regard to the CDF is the insistence by the District Development Officers (DDOs) that in constructions we should use the Ministry of Roads and Public Works. This does not augur well for us, because the Ministry of Roads and Public Works insists on bills of quantities, which inflate construction costs considerably. In my own constituency, I constructed a school with Kshs3.5 million, without going through the Ministry of Roads and Public Works. Recently, when we built a library comprising of just one large room, bills of quantities inflated its cost to Kshs3.5 million. This a most ridiculous thing. I do not intend to use the Ministry of Roads and Public Works guidelines in any of my CDF projects."
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