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    "id": 365468,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/365468/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 326,
        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
        "slug": "jimmy-angwenyi"
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. This is because it promotes the development of infrastructure in our country. I want to tell my colleagues that it is these type of Motions that have developed this country. This type of Motion brought the CDF. This type of Motion brought rise to the Roads Fund. This Motion, if it goes through and we make sure it is implemented, imagine that each year you will be getting a minimum of 20 kilometres of tarmac in your constituency. By the end of five years you will have got 100 kilometres. I can assure you that if you do not pass this Motion and expect the Government or the county government to do a road in your constituency, you will spend your five years here and you will not see one centimeter of tarmac road in your constituency. Hon. Speaker, Sir, we all know that infrastructure is the base for development. You have seen what former President Kibaki did in the last ten years. He concentrated on infrastructure although it was not widespread throughout the country. He knew, as an economist, that no economy can develop without proper infrastructure. After we pass this Motion and implement it we need to venture into other sectors of the infrastructure, say, the railways, aerodromes, and waterways. I wish the Mover of this Motion was elected in the last Parliament or two Parliaments ago. This country would have tarmac roads all over. The retired President in 2001, when Eng. Karue brought a Motion in this Parliament about CDF and which was seconded by this person, said that he wished Kenyans had elected these two young men – then I was younger – to Parliament a few years ago. This country would have developed. Surely enough CDF – and it cannot be taken away from us; only over our dead bodies. CDF has done tremendous work in this country. We all can attest to that."
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