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    "id": 428471,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "It is important that these funds are appropriated to the constituency level as a rule. Why do I say so? It has become a common practice these days for hon. Members of Parliament to line up or queue in the offices of the Principal Secretaries and Cabinet Secretaries lobbying for their constituencies to be considered in the allocation of funds meant to do roads and provide electricity. That state of affairs is not tenable, especially in the new constitutional dispensation. It is shameful for Members to line up or queue, literally begging Cabinet Secretaries and Principal Secretaries and sometimes even CEOs of State organizations to consider their regions. It should be a matter of law that if a specific amount of money has been earmarked for roads, it is shared by various constituencies, so that you know that Hamisi Constituency, for instance, will get this amount of money for roads. That way, we will be free from these shenanigans as Members of Parliament. We will also be free to execute our mandate of legislation, oversight and representation fairly and appropriately, and without regard to the feelings of third parties. That is very important."
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