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    "id": 875563,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Chair appeared before the Budget and Appropriations Committee telling us to give them Kshs8 billion to return because they spent some money from the Kenya Roads Board after the rains fell to reconstruct roads. I asked where the roads were constructed. My constituency, apart from the normal Kshs21 million which goes to every constituency, has not received any extra coin yet I am told that money has been disbursed to constituencies. That is lack of equity and we cannot support it. This House must try as much as possible to distribute the budget lines in this House. If we allow technocrats and the Executive to use their discretion, a school in some place will get Kshs50 million from the infrastructure fund and for others to get Kshs1million, they will be lucky. These are things that this House must deal with especially now that we have started the Budget cycle. We must deal with these issues appropriately. Finally, allow me also to condemn some of my colleagues without mentioning names. With allocation of Kshs109 million to NG-CDF, we should not be reading in newspapers that children are learning under trees. My concern is that the regions which have been crying of marginalisation over the years are again the victims. What is happening? Take the case of Samburu, a poor county, where county officials are given money to develop such a county, but they use that money to buy property. They stole Kshs2 billion. If it is a matter of theft, surely, can you not even steal reasonably? This idea of just stealing and denying your people basic services is bad. Hon. Members, my plea is that let us use NG-CDF to improve learning facilities. If anything, we just have two sectors: education and security. However, you will still see children learning under trees. In my constituency, unless it is a new primary which was started at most three years ago, you cannot have a semi-permanent classroom. In this era of NG-CDF – and we have had it for some time – we need to organise ourselves so that we can demonstrate to the whole world that it is working. I can see Hon. Kioni is complaining. I do not know what he is protesting about, but that is the fact. The fact is that NG-CDF money is meant for education and security. I rarely use it for security because the priority of my people is education. With those few remarks, I thank the Committee. I am not able to see the Chairman here, but I know there are Members like Hon. Shakeel Shabbir who have done a good job. Complete this work, please. Thank you. I support the Report."
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