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    "id": 867262,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/867262/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": "As I conclude, I urge our Budget and Appropriations Committee to take interest and know how some of these projects are implemented out there. This is a lot of money that has been allocated. Part of it is a grant and another part is in form of loans. This country is going to pay the money. It is not free. If we are going to do so, there must be a very serious mechanism of ensuring that the money going to counties whether from development partners of from our kitty at the national Government level is followed up by a serious monitoring and evaluation programme so that we are able to advise our development partners to put in the dollar where it will have a positive effect in our country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those remarks, I beg to support and urge that we re-look at resource allocation in this country. Until recently and as my brother has just said, we have been allocating money from the strategic reserve only for maize. It took me time to discover Legal Notice No.15 of 2015 that included other farm commodities. That is when I started engaging the Ministry that we need to extend that particular allocation to the other commodities. It has taken more than three years since 2015 and we have not benefited from it. Our farmers have been suffering. We hope all these things will be corrected so that in future, I do not continue crying as a Member of Parliament representing over 200,000 people, eight wards compared to other constituencies that have under 50,000 people and probably three or less wards."
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