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    "id": 668559,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyoo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2408,
        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Jubilee had very good programmes. One of them was the annuity programme floated to make Kenya mitigate its problems in infrastructure. Unfortunately, this appeared to be a high sounding nothing because it never saw the light of the day. Before the annuity programme came a cropper, there were roads that were programmed to start and had been given priority. I have a road as priority No.4 in the country. Since the annuity programme came a cropper and fizzled out, I have seen certain roads mushrooming dispensed by Government’s bigwigs. It will now be necessary for us to make informal visits to some high placed Government officers to lobby for roads so that they can be constructed and also arrange for those officers to come to the constituencies to start roads which will move slowly. Most of them may not see the light of day. We want Government programmes to be done as designed and floated so that they are executed and completed so that the Government can save money. Education has been allocated good money. Sometime in the last Budget we tried and moved a very important aspect of the Budget. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology moved the money for students’ school fees. When we complained, we were told that it had been factored in capitation. I have checked in my constituency and there is no new school or infrastructure put up using the money that was initially meant for bursaries. The money was quietly moved and we were told that it is capitation. We would like those kinds of programmes to be retained. Bursary is a very important element in our Budget. It cannot be wished away. I want those concerned with budget-making to know that if the money was ever moved to capitation, it is not doing whatever it was meant to do there. It should be brought back to bursary where it was very helpful."
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