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    "id": 250095,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/250095/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, if you look at page 600, Vote D13, the amount for reduction in the Ministry of Roads and Public Works is Kshs1.6 billion. We heard from the Minister for Roads and Public Works, when he was making his presentation, that roads are important and they require a lot of money. I know that in the First Schedule, the amount of money he was asking for was an extra Kshs56 million. However, the Office the President is asking for Kshs8 billion extra. Although the Ministry of Roads and Public Works has been given Kshs8 billion in the Recurrent Expenditure, we are reducing money for development by Kshs1.68 billion. Appropriations-In-Aid is expected to be Kshs1.2 million. That means that the Roads and Public Works Ministry will not have money to do anything. That is why I am raising the issue. We should rationalise reductions and additions among other things, rather than put Kshs8 billion in the President's Office for a few months, purely for Recurrent Expenditure. Why can we not make a sacrifice and put the money in roads, where we know that there are rains going on and roads have been destroyed? Why are we brave enough to come to this House and ask for reductions?"
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