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    "id": 418615,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/418615/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 391,
        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
        "slug": "manson-nyamweya"
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    "content": "Basically, the message is very clear here that this Government is not taking infrastructure seriously. I want to ask the people in the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure where the money is for the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KERRA). Where is the money for Kenya National Highways Authority (KENHA)? Where is the money for the entire roads infrastructure for roads? We can sit here today working on a project for laptops yet we do not have roads. To me, this Budget is upside down. As we move on, let us interrogate this document properly. We are responsible for bringing development across the country. The Chair, in his statement, has said clearly that for us to develop and for us to move forward, infrastructure is key. But the point that is coming from the Government is less revenue for infrastructure as compared to last year. How are we going to take our produce to the markets? I am asking the hon. Members concerned, the Committee, to take its work seriously and realise that if we are not careful, we are chasing ourselves out of Parliament. The policies of this Government are upside down. Can we, as Parliament, tell this Government that it needs to wake up? They have brought a document without following the due process. I will now touch on agriculture. If you look at the funds allocated for agriculture, there is no money for it yet we say we want to feed ourselves. I wish you could give me more time, so that I can continue--- With those few remarks, I am concerned about the Budget making process. I am concerned that this Government has no agenda for this country. So we need to wake up as Parliament to show the Government what it needs to do. Finally, I want to say that there is a lot of corruption. The report which we have passed here---"
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