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    "id": 797023,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/797023/?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": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am being distracted so much by my sister and the Leader of the Majority Party. Malongo is a sub-location in my constituency. In this sub-location, you had to get sisal poles to tie and carry a human being on it to hospital. And it is not a short distance. I made effort to put up the first dispensary there. So, you can imagine how marginalised that sub- location was before I became a Member of Parliament. At least now they have that dispensary and a road which I opened to that place, which again, because we decided to devolve rural roads, now it is almost becoming a footpath; it is not a road anymore. I was appealing to the Leader of the Majority Party and my other brothers from the marginalised areas, especially the marginalised counties; that, we should not open this Fund to every sub-location in the country because then it defeats the logic for it, but we accept that there are certain counties like Baringo, for example, that were not considered here. In Homa Bay, you will get pockets of sub-locations in my constituency apparently, more than any other place that are marginalised. So, Hon. Deputy Speaker, this time when we appropriate these funds, we will ask the National Treasury to disburse it. However, this House must re-look at the advisory board and how much we should allocate for it so that we do not spend money that is meant for marginalised areas to enrich people; paying them per diem, buying tea in offices here in Nairobi and fueling four-wheel drive vehicles. With those many remarks, I support the appropriation of this money. Thank you."
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