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    "id": 387284,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/387284/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "funds is not tidy. I think we need to be very clear on where the money for roads is. For me, I have heard some people saying that there are lucrative tenders for roads. No Member of Parliament here even in the Tenth Parliament participated in the tendering for the roads. What Members of Parliament were doing is that they were deciding that this road should get this much and this road, because of its importance, should get this much. The rest are done through the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KERRA). That is the tendering and everything else. I never knew who they picked until those contractors were on site when I would supervise them. So, our issue is not who is in charge or who is tendering, our issue is: Is there money for the roads? These governors insist that they have money for roads and yet when you look at their budgets, there is no provision for maintenance of our roads at all. We cannot have one year without roads being maintained. I have looked at my county, for example, the money that is allocated for roads is for opening and grading of new 12 kilometres of roads per ward but we have the roads that are in existence. Like in my constituency there is not even a single kilometre of a tarmac road. All the roads are maintained through KERRA funds. How am I going to explain to my constituents when these roads are not maintained? Am I going to tell them that the governor was supposed to get the money, he did not get it but lied that he had the money? The officers who are supposed to advise the Government accordingly are playing politics. In fact, this may not sound as sweet music in the ears of my friend, hon. Duale and the Jubilee side of this House but let me say this---"
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