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    "id": 1077120,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinard Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity. I have been sitting here. As a student of economics, I want to tell my colleagues that tomorrow, Kenyans will be watching. They will be glued to their seats to watch televisions and listen to radio as the Cabinet Secretary reads out this particular Budget. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me say at the outset that I am not happy with this Budget. You have heard the Chairmen of Committees lament. We expect some of them to give us facts. It is like they have not had the opportunity to put their inputs to solve some of those issues. I am sorry but this particular Budget does not meet the threshold. I am not sure whether I should support it or just stay neutral because even the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, in which I sit, has had problems explaining some of the things contained in this Budget. I agree with him on some of the issues. It is because of what is happening in this country. To start with, I am an agriculturalist. I actually come from an agricultural area. We expected some incentives to be given to farmers. We all know the Maputo Declaration. We are supposed to have 10 per cent of the Budget going to agriculture. I have looked at some of these figures. Disappointingly, some of them have been reduced. Therefore, again, we cannot meet the threshold of the Maputo Declaration. Many other challenges have been raised. It is a fact that, as a country, we have been borrowing a lot. Look out there. Be realistic. In my own background, I see us having problems. First of all, businesses are all collapsing. Of course, you can give the excuse of COVID-19 but then the Government should have given incentives to businesspeople and raised Kenyans’ hopes that, at least, as we struggle, we have a way of reviving our economy. We must have somewhere to generate the revenue to pay some of our debts. We have talked about figures. I may be lost on 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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