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    "id": 668537,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/668537/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Thank you for the correction. We are appropriating some money to the counties as well. As we do that, the money should be released on time so that the ongoing and stalled projects can be completed on time. There is a problem with the absorption rate because of the time money is released to the expecting agents. As we appropriate this money, sometimes the money passed here is arbitrarily slashed by the National Treasury. We handled complaints from agents, particularly ministries where we allocate money to them but they do not receive it. The National Treasury slashes the amount allocated arbitrarily without due recall to the ministries. Sometimes the programmes cited are not implemented on time. Sometimes money for Development Expenditure is taken to Recurrent Expenditure. That is happening because of the late release by the Exchequer. I want to take this opportunity to say that money allocated to infrastructure should be released on time. We have roads that were supposed to have been constructed some time back. There was a Motion passed in this House last year where we said that every constituency will get 20 kilometres of tarmac but to date, nothing has been done. In my case, we have had surveyors surveying roads but nothing has been done. I am saying so with the hope that the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing, Hon. Maina Kamanda is listening. We have an issue on Exchequer releases. I hope that with the passage of the Appropriation Bill, money will be released on time to complete some of the stalled projects like roads."
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