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    "id": 1056568,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Manje",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I stand corrected. It is that I had assumed that there is nobody near me. As I was saying, if we want to make progress in this country, we have to take resources where they are productive. If you look at the allocations, you will find that NIS is budgeted to receive about Ksh42 billion; the Ministry of Interior is to receive Ksh132 billion and Defence Ksh127 billion. The total is about Ksh300 billion. If you check the production part of the economy like agriculture and trade, enterprise development is allocated only Ksh3.1 billion; ICT, Ksh23 billion; livestock development, 7.6 billion; fisheries and the blue economy is Ksh10 billion and industrialisation Ksh6.7 billion. Together it amounts to about Ksh50 billion equivalent to the National Intelligence Service without the other part. That means that we are directing resources where they are not required compared to our economy. This is an agricultural economy and we should take most of the resources to production areas. If we get a lot of information from the NIS yet people are hungry, it means we will keep on trying to safeguard them. Agriculture was not properly allocated. I also realise there is a big problem when it comes to the accounting cycle of the country. For example, the BPS is not followed word for word by the Budget. When the Budget is done, within a very short time, a Supplementary Budget is brought. Last year, we had Supplementary Budgets I, II and III. This makes accounting a bit clumsy and untidy. We should budget once per year and forget about supplementary although we know that life is dynamic. We should try as much as possible to be good planners. Sometimes we find an item brought in a supplementary budget that is like a long time project. We cannot start a project in between unless we do not have good planners in the Ministry. I would also advocate that we 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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