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    "id": 1037348,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am a very sad Member of Parliament. As my colleagues have mentioned, we are going for a very long recess yet the NG-CDF Committee, where I am a Member, has not received money. I am told that there will be some cut yet the Budget and Appropriations Committee which is here, is quite competent to assist the National Treasury in proper appropriation of funds. I think I am getting lost because even when we call the Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury, he does not even appear. I remember sitting in a place waiting for him to come and explain why we had not been given money for the NG-CDF. Members are here. They are going home. He could not even turn up. Something should be done in the National Treasury. I ask the Budget and Appropriations Committee to be a bit tougher. The Committee should rein in on these guys. They are saying they are going to borrow money. From where? This country is in big debt already. We have problems everywhere. We are getting embarrassed. As Members of this House, through you, we do the job. We have to oversee various Ministries. Money is being spent left, right and centre on things that are not priority for this country. Therefore, something must be done. This House must stand up to be counted in these times because we are having a lot of embarrassing questions. They ask us what we are doing. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Let them do more than they have. Thank you."
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