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    "id": 364222,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bichage",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2616,
        "legal_name": "Chris Munga Nyamaratandi Bichage",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Motion. In my constituency, the only roads that pass there are roads that pass from Nairobi to Kisumu and the road that passes from Nyaribari Masaba going to Bomachoge. Without infrastructure, you cannot do meaningful agricultural development, especially horticulture. You may know that in my constituency, the land sizes are very small and so the type of farming that you can do in areas like Kitale cannot be done in Nyaribari Chache because you are talking of a land size of a quarter of an acre to one acre and a maximum of one acre. So, we live on horticulture, growing bananas, avocadoes and sugarcane. These are perishable items and I have requested in the Budget that we get a cold room. Without roads, you are not going to get them from the village because we are a high rainfall zone where out of 12 months, seven or eight months are raining. This means there is no way you can get your produce to the road. So, this concept of 20 kilometers of bitumen per annum is fantastic. I would rather put it as a minimum and like other speakers have said, we have several areas we can cut and paste. Get money and put into infrastructure. I know that we have been spending a lot of money on flowers in the offices; Kshs6 billion. We have been spending a lot of money on luxuries and we have a lot of wastage. There is leakage in our budget and we should look at all these loopholes, change and put money in roads."
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