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    "id": 81750,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/81750/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I went through a whole clear criteria on how the Welfare Monitoring Survey of 1997 was conducted and how the Kenya Integrated Budget Survey was conducted and the fundamental differences, so that Members can appreciate why you will see the differences in 1997 as corrected in 2005/2006. One fundamental thing that I mentioned is that the first one was a survey for only three months between February to May 1997. This other one took a whole year. It was a report that was conducted by the Kenyan Government in conjunction with our development partners authenticated by the World Bank, all the development partners and by the various stakeholders in the various areas where this was conducted. So, this is the most modern, the most authentic report which we have in terms of household behaviours and household poverty in our country as of today. Rubbishing it and now saying we prefer something that was done over a three months period, something that marginalized a whole province and did not take data for the whole North Eastern Province in 1997 because of insecurity situation, we will be doing injustice to a portion of the country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am giving you these facts as Government so that you appreciate why the Government decided in 2004 that it was necessary to update the data that the Government was having for purposes of deciding on the way forward. What is the rationale for planning purposes? How do we even start looking at achieving the Millennium Development Goals? We are starting from data in 1997 at 62 percent. In 2005/2006, we had already reduced poverty to 46 percent because of the interventions. There is no way the economy can be growing at the rate it was growing and you do not see impact on the ground. There is no way we can be putting all this money on the road sector and all the expenditure and you do not see improvement in poverty. There is no way we can be putting so much money on CDF in the individual constituencies and you have not noticed poverty reduction in specific constituencies. If it is not happening, then there is something wrong happening with the delivery mechanisms for that money at the constituency level. So, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in terms of looking through, it is very clear that the Kenya integrated budget survey of 2005 was a superior method, was a superior study and an updated survey of the 1997---"
}