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    "id": 89496,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbau",
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        "legal_name": "Elias Peter Mbau",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance. I appreciate very much what has been presented by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government. However, in supporting this Motion, I would like to express reservations which need to be addressed for proper and prudent optimal utilization of public resources. If you look at what has been happening with the money that is allocated to the various local authorities, you will discover that at the beginning of the year there are very many grandiose plans and targets which midstream the financial year get reallocated to other emerging projects that become desirable. Therefore, at the end of the year, you will find that there are many projects that stand incomplete and yet the next financial year does not necessarily guarantee that funds are put on the same. This question of reallocating resources to various projects midstream gives beneficiaries inability to project with certainty what will eventually be delivered or derived from the resources allocated. I would like to give a specific example here so that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government does not think that I am talking for the sake of it. We have a bus park in Makuyu Town Council that was planned some three years ago. It was supposed to be funded by the local authority of Makuyu Town Council as well as the European Union (EU). I think the same council approached my Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) Committee to do some local contribution so that we can be seen as the local leadership, to also appreciate. My CDF Committee put in Kshs700,000, but in between the implementation of that project when the EU had already put in Kshs1.8 million, they stopped the project. For three years we have had a small white elephant. Of course, my CDF Committee had to withdraw what it had already given. I want to ask the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government to critically peruse and interrogate the various projects that have been funded across the country by the EU and whether the same have been giving value to monies that are supposed to come to this country. Right now as we talk, the same local authority is supposed to reimburse even that which had been donated or granted to it. So, we have a bus park there which is not finished and cannot be used. We have put in money which is now supposed to be reimbursed to the EU. That, to me, kind of smacks off some foul play or something fishy and I would like the Minister to get to the heart of that."
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