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    "id": 804639,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I was saying that the commitments that the President was speaking about from Quebec are the agreements that they have entered with donors like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). We need, just like we did after the El Nino rains, to raise money from the donor community to deal with the problem of roads infrastructure completely. We have been requested to allocate a Kshs3 billion fund which will act as our capital contribution towards the raising of close to Kshs40 billion that will go towards the repair and completion of the many projects in our respective constituencies. Such projects will not be completed if you are not able to access this Fund. I alluded to the fact that the decisions we make this afternoon will have implications. If you reduce one allocation, somewhere else will lose. We have just made a decision on the Equalisation Fund. I alluded to the fact that we were reducing what was over and above the constitutional threshold. We have made a decision to retain Kshs3.8 billion. Something else will have to lose. The NYS has already lost. Therefore, in conclusion, I want to make the Members know that as they make this decision, it should be in the best interest of this country. So that we can assist the Government to raise adequate resources to cater not just for the rehabilitation of our roads, but even construction and completion of the ongoing projects. With that, I beg to move."
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