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    "id": 1174238,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwingi North, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Paul Nzengu",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Musyimi Nzengu",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this Motion. At the outset, I stand to support the Report from the Budget and Appropriations Committee on this Supplementary Budget. However, I want to identify that there are challenges that come with supplementary budgets at this hour or time of the year. We face challenges even to understand what the ministerial departments want to do with the monies because there was no room to have a one on one meeting with them and so we just asked our secretariat to call the heads of those ministries to try and understand exactly how some of the monies were going to be spent, especially where huge amounts of money were involved and there was no justification whether the money was going to pay for pending bills or it was going to pay for new projects. However, one of the most important thing that is being funded under this budget is stabilisation of the fuel prices. As one of my colleagues has said, when you go out of this country, you realise that the price per litre of, for example, petrol is way above Ksh200 and Kenyans are lucky that, indeed, our Parliament and Government have been able to cushion them from the market forces that determine the prices of fuel. It is very important for Kenyans to know that as Members of Parliament, we are concerned about their welfare. The increase in the price of petroleum products will automatically lead to increase in prices of processed goods which will really push Kenyans to another level, even when they are already suffering."
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