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    "id": 875900,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/875900/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Buuri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mugambi Murwithania Rindikiri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, I want to say that the Committee has done a good job. However, there are issues that have been expressed by Members which are very pertinent. I do not want to go through them, but one of the issues that I expected to come from this Committee is, addressing the issue of imbalances between constituencies. When the Committee is doing its job, they have the mandate to look at how big the constituency is in terms of spending on the NG-CDF. My constituency is the largest in Meru County. It gets the same amount of money a smaller constituency gets. This means that the effectiveness of my NG-CDF allocation is not sufficient to offer the services that I am expected to deliver through the NG-CDF. One of the things that we need to address is the criteria the board adopted to allocate various lines of spending. The youth factor is a big concern to this country. But you find that it only gets allocation of 2.5 per cent of the Budget. We need to look at that line of spending. The Committee needs to look at the possibility of increasing the allocation or finding out…"
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