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    "id": 621410,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also laud you for the communication. I take this opportunity to urge committees, particularly the leadership of committees; that is the chairpersons and their deputies, and all members, that we have seen a serious attempt to claw back the gains of devolution by undermining functions that are devolved or trying to shift them to the national Government. Your Communication is very clear; the policy statement will be debated and approved with or without amendments. I urge colleagues to look at this very carefully, especially the committee in charge of roads. You can see what is happening to the roads sector. There is a mischievous upgrade of all Class D roads to Class C in the country without any justification. This is simply because they want to shift them from the counties to the national Government for them to continue manipulating tenders and perpetuating corruption. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the roads sector, even if you shift maliciously all Class D roads to Class C, the impact will be negligible because they are less than 50,000 kilometres. Even if we shifted Classes A, B and C of our roads to the national Government, the impact will not be felt much because they are less than 10,000 kilometres. Therefore, we expect the bulk of the roads money to go to Turkana, Marsabit, Moyale, Bomet, Nyangores ward and all these places, so that the county governments can manage roads for the benefit of the people of Kenya. I was part of the team that resolved that each African Government was obligated to assign a minimum of 10 per cent of the national budget to agriculture for food production, food preservation, food marketing and so on. We want to see this done. The Standing Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries led by the distinguished Sen. Murungi, must bring very cogent arguments to this House for us to achieve that AU resolution. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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