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    "id": 667406,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "way of pulling a rag under my feet. Members of Parliament should understand that things are not the same as when we came here. The roads and National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NGCDF) are no longer ours. So what are you going to do in your constituencies? You will oversee but by just overseeing you are going to become irrelevant. To me, this has malice because the governors went and asked for the classification of roads in constituencies and counties. I know if it was done in good spirit there is going to be better coordination, management and maintenance of roads. Therefore, I do not even know my role in my constituency because I was supposed to have some roads but in Kwanza, I do not have any. This means that they were all taken by the county government. Secondly, I know that classification was done and there was a 20-kilometre road network which I was supposed to get from the Government. I think this is in a Motion that we passed in this House sometime back in 2014. To date, I do not know what has happened. I hear of a 10,000-kilometre road network programme being implemented in this country, but as far as I am concerned, each constituency is supposed to get 20 kilometres. In my case, I have had surveyors coming to survey but nothing has happened for the last one year. As I was waiting for them to come and tarmack 20 kilometres of roads in my constituency for my own survival, they were taken away by the governors. We know that there will be sanity, but as far as I am concerned, something is amiss. We cannot sit here and wait to see what is next. The next thing is that we will have nothing. We are going to be rendered irrelevant because I know the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NGCDF) will go and we will have nothing. Even the pupils we have been supporting through the NGCDF are now at home due to lack of fees. I am told that the governors are involved. As far as we are concerned, there is much more."
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