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"speaker_name": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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"content": " Hon. Dr Wilberforce Oundo, you have invited a point of order from the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee."
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"speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is not my intention to disrupt my brother and neighbour, Hon. (Dr) Oundo. However, is it in order for him to belittle this House by claiming that we do not have the power to make a budget? It is very clear that budget-making is the mandate and responsibility of this House. Is he in order? The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": " Hon. (Dr) Oundo."
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"speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I did not in any way say that Parliament does not have the power to make a Budget. I just said his hands are tied because of the fiscal and economic framework we are facing. If Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga were the President, the country would not be facing the current predicament."
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"content": " Hon. (Dr) Oundo, we also need to be factual. For the first time, I have seen a proposed road project in Mandera County. I have never seen this before. Additionally, Ndhiwa Constituency, which has never seen a tarmac road or a road raised to Bitumen standards, is included in the estimates. There are several other roads in regions and places that have been overlooked in past budget estimates. So, give the devil his due."
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"speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I hope the time you have taken to speak will be given back to me, because you have taken five minutes. Yes, they can celebrate, but the people of Busia, who are of a lesser God, have nothing to celebrate. Hon. Temporary Speaker. Allow me to pick up on two issues. Hon. Mukunji has left it off that there are some basic common user facilities that every Kenyan requires. They can sort themselves out on other things. Some things are retained by the National Government, which we budget for through this process. There is close to Ksh200 billion slated for roads and related infrastructure. As usual, I have painstakingly gone through this document. I have not seen the specific itemised roads where the Ksh200 billion is going to go. This continues the opaque nature of budget-making, which I thought our experts and the Chairman of the Committee, having suffered with him in the trenches, would have been magnanimous enough. The Committee or the Parliamentary Budget Office would have annexed to this Report the projects for which funds totalling Ksh200 billion are allocated. Again, typical of our opaque nature, we are going back to where we were. Someone will sit somewhere and allocate that money, ignoring many other places. I say that with a heavy heart. Article 10 of the Constitution, which requires inclusiveness and equality, is continuously flouted in the budget-making process. So, for many of us, there may not be much to celebrate in this Budget."
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"speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
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"content": "Allow me now to highlight a few key issues. When you go to the Committee recommendations in the Third Schedule under Vote 1065 on University Education, I want students and their parents to hear this very clearly. They have reduced Ksh1.3 billion recurrent from government-sponsored students in private universities. I want to tell parents and their children that as you filled the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) this year, if you are allocated a private university, the burden of those four years or whichever number of years lies squarely in your hands. So, do not make the mistake of accepting a place at a private university. This is an open discrimination by your Government against your children. Then you wonder why they issue charters to private universities if they do not want Kenyan children to attend them."
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"content": "Secondly, as I discuss the complete flouting of Article 10 of the Constitution, there is an increase of Ksh600 million for infrastructure support to public universities. Again, it is very opaque. They have not told us which universities are receiving the money and where that money is going. Let me state on record that they have said that Ksh100 million is allocated to Rongo University, Ksh125 million to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST), and, obviously, zero allocation for Alupe University in Busia County."
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"content": "I also want to bring to the attention of the country that, in the same Budget, there has been a reduction of Ksh3 billion in secondary school capitation. So what does it mean? It means the parents will have to dig deeper into their pockets to supplement their expenses. Their argument is probably that there are fewer students in secondary schools. That argument cannot The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "hold because the clean-up from the old system affected many students who had been mark- timing to go back to school."
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