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    "content": "initiative was a short-term solution to a long-term political problem. We have very intelligent people in the Ministry of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 and in the Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance. They can stand any intellectual challenge in the world in respect of economic planning. Our economic plan is good. We have had it for a long time, but it is its implementation that we are lacking. We are told that Korea had a similar economic plan like ours, but we were left behind. For whatever reasons that we were left behind, it is now time that the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 and all the other Ministries---. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Rwanda, a country which only ten years ago was a total waste, has put together certain proposals and ways of working. The President of Rwanda calls all the Ministers, together with the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Planning and they work out and say what they are going to do against the Budget that they have been given. They agree and then they go and run their Ministries. At the end of the year, he calls them back and those who have met their targets, get a tick and those who have not, are asked to explain the reason for their failure. That is the sort of thing that we need. We also must get away from the fact that every mwananchi sees the Office of Deputy Prime Minister and the Ministry of Finance as the source of everything. For instance, the wananchi will say that hakuna maziwa because the Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance did this. There was too much milk because the Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance did this. With all due respect, the Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance does not know much about milk and the decisions that they are making are not those that they are involved in. It is about time that we started saying that the Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance has our finance people, the Ministry of Agriculture has our agricultural people and the Ministry of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 has our planners. If we made a mistake in agriculture and there are issues of fertilizer, the Ministry of Agriculture should take the wrath for it. The Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance needs to operate, organize and run this country financially as, perhaps, our spouses do. My wife knows how much budget she needs to run the house and she runs it. When I ask her for Kshs5,000 for a political rally, she tells me: “No way! You are not going to touch the household kitty”. That is the very simplistic way in which we should start running this country. We should stay away from politics. Of course, the Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance will always be our lead actor in these issues. Of course, he will always be blamed, but we are with him. The Members are very clear that when you come for money, we will authorize you to spend the money. But be transparent; do not be taken for political gimmicks and come up with long-term solutions to long-term problems. Let us get away from the short-term solutions. The ESPs are having problems. Do not deal with problems which are not yours."
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