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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Finance Bill, but I want to make a few observations. It is very important for this House to realise the importance of the Finance Bill that we are debating today. In simple terms, we are debating the issue of how money gets into the Consolidated Fund before it is distributed. So, indeed, this is a very important Bill. We realise the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance has outlined, in the Finance Bill, how he intends to raise funds. We know that he intends to raise funds from across the country and the entire economy. Several people are taxpayers, but they do not know. They contribute to the Consolidated Fund without their knowledge. In my earlier submissions, I suggested that it is important that we carry the whole country with us on matters of finances, so that Kenyans can appreciate what roles they are playing. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance has just outlined how the economy has been behaving. In his Budget Speech, he indicated that the economy has slumped, for the reasons he gave, from a record 7.1 per cent in 2007 to 1.7 per cent currently. It is imperative that we, as a country, realise that in order for this country to grow, we need to engage all and sundry in our goal setting and production. To this end, I want to persuade the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, and the entire Government, to find a way of engaging the whole country, so that as we hope the national productivity of this country will grow by a certain percentage, we break down that into regional goals and go even further to break it into household goals. If you set a household to grow its productivity by a given rate, and that is done across the country, you will be sure of achieving a certain growth rate that will be desirable. However, if we just throw it into the wilderness, nobody will pick it and follow it up as a goal worth pursuing. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to agree with the Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources, who has just spoken; that, indeed, we are fond of scrambling over resources. It is important that we appreciate where those resources come from. The Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources is very important at this point in time, if we are to sustain our economy. A lot of funds are desired to go into"
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