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    "id": 841532,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/841532/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, just the other day, we said here that because of these constraints in the economy, that is seriously devolved is the paymaster general, because the salaries that used to be paid from Nairobi can now be paid at the counties. We have devolved corruption; the corruption that is eating the country at the centre is eating the country at the counties. That is about all! Today, counties have not received any development fund for the last couple of months. They are only getting enough money to pay salaries and stop people from rioting and making uncomfortable noises. Once wananchi are paid their salaries, wacha ikae ! How are we going to develop? We want to industrialise and build mega dams. That is another area where we are losing money, because for even rudimentary technology, the easiest construction is a dam. Block a river, hold water and you have a dam. However, it is only in Kenya where you hear that you construct a dam at Kshs36 billion. Just putting an embankment on a river to hold a quantum of water and generate electricity or supply for human use; it cost Kshs30 billion or Kshs40 billion. That is the hemorrhage that we are talking about."
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