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    "id": 861725,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "However, the issue that my colleagues have raised and I want to raise too is the problem of implementation. The issue that we have in this country is that we come up with brilliant ideas but implementation is done wrongly many times. In this concept, for example, just like the Laptop project, there was no consultation. You cannot imagine how people sit at the Ministry and make decisions on how they will have four ICT hubs in every constituency in the country without consultations. On the expenditure of NG-CDF, consultation is a must. It is clear in our NG-CDF Act that we have to have consultations, we have to meet people and ask them for their priorities. How then does the Ministry in charge of ICT make a decision on behalf of the people of the constituencies? That is unfortunate. As a result in my constituency, we have a problem. We have a problem of infrastructure. In the beginning, we thought that we would be able to do these centres within our schools. The Ministry of Education came clearly and said that they do not want any interference and would not allow visitors in our schools in third term. We need to have places where we can put the equipment and that is not available. Previously, we had attempted to build a youth social hall within the constituency, but the same NG-CDF Board rejected the proposal. The money that I intended to spend on that hall is still tied up as we were negotiating. The Ministry can make a decision and now I know the Board wants to allow the construction of that hall so that I can put the ICT equipment there. The other problem we have is the infrastructure of ICT. We have poor network coverage in most of our places, in fact, in some corners of my constituency you cannot receive or make a call. That is the infrastructure that is required for ICT to operate."
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