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    "id": 832500,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matungulu, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mule",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I urge the Committee to make sure that in constituencies where there are grey areas, they should come up with far-reaching recommendations to make sure that the culprits are brought to book. As much as people try to imagine that Members of Parliament do not have a role to play in the management, disbursement and oversight of the NG-CDF, if there is credit the Members need to be given, it should be that we made the NG-CDF work for our people. Sometimes I wonder why the national Government has a ministry responsible for roads tendering in Nairobi for a road which will be built in Machakos, Wajir or Kisumu. We have 290 constituencies forming the country called Kenya. If there is equitable distribution of resources and the national Government decides to oversee roads, water and other programmes of our economy, I doubt whether we require county governments. We needed to go down to the common mwananchi at the constituency level. This might be an emotive issue. Some people are trying to protect their ideology. It is high time we accepted the fact that ideologies of the past will not help us anymore. We must think of a new ideology whereby we urge the Government and the people who are making policies in this country to ensure that resources go to the common mwananchi at the grassroots level."
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