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    "id": 776535,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/776535/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "I was saying this because I know the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing is aware of it. I know he has the difficulty of accepting that because of his political leaning. I can say it for him. I am speaking to the Executive, wherever they are: Please, let us stop this craze and this populist approach of trying to please every region and constituency by starting a road project for them, a tarmacked road. Let us first of all concentrate on the roads that we have started as a country. Let us develop them and conclude the development. We are a country, this country is not so many countries in one; it is still one. Unless and until Kaluma’s Motion of secession goes through, I am very confident that we are still one country. Whether we like each other or not, we remain a country. In that case, we need to think globally. We need to think nationally. In fact, we need to think nationally even when we are borrowing money. I would not mind if money is borrowed, I am forced to pay and, that money goes to a water project to, for example, make Turkana County have water or make North Eastern have water. But, I would be very hesitant if it is not so. Hon. Speaker, I do not want to give another example but allow me to give example with the county you come from. That is when, maybe, I will not get many points of order here and there. I assume, I may be wrong, your county may have more water than the average counties in this country. I would be very reluctant if this country goes to borrow Kshs80 billion, for example, to add to your Embu County and we have North Eastern with no water! People are dying just to get water to drink. Turkana has no water; there is no water in Lower Eastern; Makueni has no water, and other places have no water. I would want the country to prioritise projects based on needs – not based on political expediency; not because so and so comes from such and such a place. We all pay these debts. We are all taxpayers. I one time said here, in response to my friend Duale, that it is not just Jubilee supporters who pay taxes. We all pay taxes – including supporters of the National Super Alliance (NASA). That is why we are all entitled to services."
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