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    "id": 367112,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/367112/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I want to support this Motion as amended. Many parts of this country have been marginalized in terms of development. As we deal with this Supplementary Budget, we realize that it is going to address issues to enable the elected Jubilee Government to meet its obligations. Those obligations are the people’s expectations. I come from Endebess Constituency, which was hived from Kwanza. My constituency has been marginalized by the past regimes and that is why we fought to have our own constituency. We were marginalized in terms of development and, in fact, even in terms of composition of the CDF Committee. When we recently elected our CDF Committee, we tried to balance. The areas that we realized were marginalized are now utilizing CDF money to ensure that we equalize the marginalized areas. That way, they will catch up with the rest of the county. Endebess has many Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) farms. The employees there are suffering from what hon. Wesley Korir has said; that is, money being deferred for use in the next financial years. There are employees who have not been paid their salaries for six months. Those people have needs. When we defer paying them, how do they get their children to school? For me, getting the CDF money is key to unlocking poverty in my constituency. I will be petitioning the Departmental Committee in charge of agriculture to look at the issues affecting ADC workers. Those people work under squalid conditions. They work for long hours and yet, they are not paid. How do they feed their families when they have not been paid for six months? How do they meet their basic needs? We talk of having a country where all of us are equal, but I think others are more equal than others. Hon. Speaker, Sir, we need to look at how we can operationalized the funds that we are devolving. At the end of the day, that money is meant to reach the common"
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