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    "id": 666498,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, what you have said is true. We are serious legislators. We will delete that section that talks about Kshs1.5925 billion of the State Department of Planning and Statistics to be taken to Lake Basin Development Authority from the Report. Ultimately, after we reject Kshs705.2 million, we will go further, with your permission, to draft an amendment to reject Kshs1.5925 billion. That money will be used for the construction of a mall in Kisumu. That is in the Report. If we reject Kshs705 million, then it goes back to the original figure which even the National Treasury when they appeared before the Budget and Appropriations Committee rejected, and the Chairman will agree with me. This is the Kshs1.5 billion. I want Members to listen to me. We are suffering in our constituencies. Even Kshs2 million, Kshs3 million or Kshs6 million of Uwezo Fund is a lot of money. Here, we are being told that with the powers we are given on the Budget making process, Kshs705 million will go to a contractor somewhere as a pending bill. This Government must make it very clear that it wants to compete with the private sector. It is Kenyans who are working very hard to build malls. Tomorrow, the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) will come here and say: “As we build roads, we want to build housing estates,” The KMTC will say: “As we train medical personnel, we want to build a hotel.” This is very unfair. It is immoral and unacceptable. We cannot appropriate money to the Lake Development Authority for pending bills. Secondly, this mall is in place. The Lake Basin Development Authority is collecting rent from each and every occupant of a space in that mall. They can use that rent to offset the loan they borrowed. One time Hon. Martha Karua said that there are times when the House will rise to the occasion. Those of us who are in the House should think whether we should take this money to the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) and see whether we get Kshs101 million. Each constituency gets Kshs2 million extra than using taxpayers money to build a mall."
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