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    "content": "expect to build the housing sector? We need to seriously think and realign our existing resources, so that we can live within our means. Madam Temporary Speaker, many people have been reduced to beggars when they attempted to work with county governments and do businesses with them. Many Kenyans do not want to work with county governments. This is because they give them tenders, but when it comes to payment, they rely on the exchequer to release their sharable revenue, which the Constitution clearly states should not be delayed. How do you expect the Exchequer to release money they do not have? They are put between a rock and a hard place. You want them to develop, yet they continue collecting taxes and over-taxing Kenyans. Any international businessman thinking of setting base in Kenya, first, wants to understand the tax system. This is because they cannot be in a country where they want to develop and then continue to pay more taxes than their profits. Madam Temporary Speaker, I hope that this Committee on Finance and Budget will scrutinize, define and bring amendments to the Public Finance Management Act, so that in future we do not have a situation where either the courts or the Executive stops the Auditor-General from performing their tasks. I have read that one of the recommendations is that within 28 days, the National Treasury should provide a status report on the restructuring of the public debt stock, as indicating during the review of the debt ceiling in October, 2019. We are now asking the National Treasury to give us a status update. It is the Auditor-General who should come up and say that he has audited. We should have a third party to give us the status. You cannot expect a body that wants to continue borrowing and increase the debt of the country to give us a proper and honest status report. As I conclude, I reiterate by saying that debt is not bad, but it should be manageable. Going forward, any decision we make in the three arms of Government should be to protect the future generation. I hope that my party leader becomes the leader of this country in 2022. I hope that he will think twice and carry out a proper and honest audit. There are countries where the police and politicians are paid more money because they do not want to give them any room for corruption. However, in our country, we bleed our police to death. We do not care about them, yet we still expect them to avoid corruption deals. We are a rotten society. The fact that the National Treasury is trying to survive by increasing the debt, the only way to help them is by us being honest because we are not an honest society. We are a society where leaders lead by example of corruption. Anytime a tender is put, let us say to construct a one-kilometre road, instead of being economical, we triple it. Even after tripling it, you never complete the job. Instead, you want to continue grabbing tenders and oiling your own pockets to ensure that your family lives well. We must be our brothers‟ keepers."
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