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    "id": 451852,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/451852/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. M’uthari",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1576,
        "legal_name": "Joseph M'eruaki M'uthari",
        "slug": "joseph-meruaki-muthari"
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    "content": "contractors have not been paid. Some of the roads are half done and by the end of the day, the Government will end up spending more money on the contracts. It is important when money is appropriated for projects, planners and implementers keep track of everything that is happening. At the end of the day, we should know what has happened instead of waiting for the end only to realize that we have not done the right thing. We have spent money that is not there. As a country, being an agricultural country, we could have thought about sectors like establishing factories for fertilizer manufacture. In the process, we can even reduce the cost of production so that we can stimulate growth. There are also crops which are grown in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL), like sorghum which has acquired some industrial value. It is bought by some of these manufacturers for making various products. It is also sad that these products are over-priced because of tax and this is transferred to the consumers who are farmers. At the end of the day, instead of supporting this production, they do not. I think the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee should look into this important crop. He should also look into the fact that the Government does not tax whatever is being derived from sorghum, which is promoted in the arid and semi arid areas. This is because if it overtaxes it, then its production is depleted and in the process we are not able to move forward as a country."
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