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    "id": 418593,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/418593/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njagagua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2336,
        "legal_name": "Charles Muriuki Njagagua",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, while at it again, we have been told by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) and the Treasury that much of the money that we allocated to them last year, another whopping Kshs50 million, has been lying at the CBK. They have been unable to utilise this money. In the short-term, what I am saying is that they do not have the capacity to absorb this money. I am saying this money should go to the counties, and I believe there is no Member of Parliament (MP), who is opposed to devolution; but this money must, as of necessity, be utilised for the purposes that we want it to be used for, which is assisting the common mwananchi. Hon. Speaker, I must also hasten to add that there is a second part of the coin. We have proposed that about Kshs1.4 billion be utilised for construction of polytechnics. We all know that after students sit their Standard Eight examination there are those who never make it to universities or to Form One. It is this money that we are saying we are sending to the governors; it must be ring-fenced. It should not be used for luxuries. That money must be used to construct polytechnics that will absorb our children, who are not able to make it to secondary schools."
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