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    "id": 89470,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/89470/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Livestock Development",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
    },
    "content": "My constituency Garissa, has the oldest municipal council in that region. In 2006, an integrated strategic planning was done for a number of municipalities, Garissa Municipal Council included. There were six of them. Under those pilot municipalities, physical and strategic planning was to be done for six municipalities. That programme was launched in 2006 and Kshs50 million was earmarked for that process. A company was contracted to do that in 2006/2007. To date, what that contracted company has done on the ground is just to conduct interviews with the staff of Garissa Municipal Council. They carried out one stakeholders meeting and an aerial photographing of Garissa Town. That programme was to be completed by December 2009. However, a conflict arose between the Ministry of Land’s Department of Physical Planning and the contracted team. I want the Minister to re-look at the Department of Urban Planning within the Ministry of Local Government. I want to say it here that we are going towards zero tolerance to corruption. But when you look at that department--- If you look at the number of projects that are being done, specifically in my constituency, there is the Garissa Bus Park which, in my opinion, was to cost Kshs50 million. But it ended up costing the Kenyan taxpayers close to Kshs80 million. The same Department of Urban Planning is, again, involved in a tussle of war with the Ministry of Lands. That is why, today, the Garissa Municipality has not been planned. We need to know where the Kshs50 million went. We also need to know why that pilot study among the six municipalities - and which Garissa Municipal Council was one of them - has not been undertaken. We need the Minister to send an audit team to investigate the construction of Garissa Municipal Bus Park. Why did it cost the taxpayers an extra US$1 million? Why is it that until today, five years down the line, that bus park has not been opened?"
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