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    "id": 804366,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "I thank the Chairman of BAC for the reallocation. The Chairman of Departmental Committee on Finance and Planning and the Chairman of PAC are in the House. We must find out what is going on with the LBDA and their purported mall in Kisumu. During the life of both the 10th and 11th Parliaments, in every Supplementary Budget, they wanted money. We need to know what we are paying for. I am happy you have given this money to people who will use it for the intended purpose, that is, our colleagues, the women MPs. Please, go and use that money to buy sanitary pads for our daughters. Please, use that money to empower the women in the counties, instead of giving it to a Chinese guy who claims that the mall is going to be auctioned. Let it be auctioned! I am sure those of you who served in the 10th and 11th Parliaments have seen that this mall has been recurring in the Budget Estimates. The Departmental Committee on Finance and Planning must relook at it and bring a report to this House so that we do not fund something similar to the Ruaraka land saga. The Departmental Committee on Finance and Planning must find out what is going on in Kisumu with regard to that mall. From where I sit and where I come from in Eastleigh, malls are owned by individuals. I have never seen a situation where a government owns a mall and where a government sets aside money for construction of a mall. So, Hon. Limo, please, go to Kisumu, talk to the people and find out what is going on. If this House is convinced, then in the Supplementary Budget that will come, we will consider the matter. However, for now, I think the money has gone to the right intended purpose and I am sure as we go along, every year, we will increase some little money for our women colleagues so that they can serve the people."
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