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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I would like to start by congratulating Hon. Ndindi Nyoro for such an amazing and eloquent presentation. In the same breath, I also want to congratulate the Budget and Appropriations Committee for such an amazing presentation. This Bbudget is being made in very lean times when there is no excesses or abundance. I can imagine the work and the midnight oil that had to be burnt for them to get to the point where this Report is on the Table of the House. This Budget is made in very lean times. I would like to note that Ksh5 billion has been allocated for mitigation of the drought situation in the country and I will not hesitate to add that it is not a situation that is only unique to Kenya. If you are following international news, you will see that if today you go to the United Kingdom as a shopper, you are only allowed to buy two tomatoes and cucumbers because there is a shortage everywhere in the world. It is a time of recession and depression all around the world. The situation of scarcity is not only unique to Kenya. I would like to first commend the Committee for some good work done. I took note that there is a budget line 1011 at the Office of the President that is making headlines. In the news, they are claiming that the President and his Deputy have already exceeded the expenditure for the year. However, people are not noting that this Supplementary Budget is to a budget that already existed, one that has already been formed. In that budget line 1011, there is a very curious budget of the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS). In the last Parliament, every time we were passing the budget, I always stood in my place and commented that Kenyans in their own wisdom in 2010 decided to separate the national Government and the county governments. The county unit of Nairobi is a semi-autonomous unit. The NMS is taking up close to Ksh13 billion in this budget that we are talking about in the Office of the President. As we critique the expenditure in the Office of the President, we have to remind ourselves of the curious situation that we got ourselves into when the previous Government was not able to meet its obligations of the Big Four Agenda. They were not able to live up to the Vision 2030 and devolved its functions all the way down to the work of putting up cabro blocks in the city. The very curious issue of the Nairobi Metropolitan Services is one of the biggest messes the city has seen since the time of the commissions in the Moi era. I am glad that as we go to the next Budget, NMS shall not appear under the Office of the President. It shall, as it should, appear in the money that we put in the division of revenue so that Nairobi City County can enjoy its privileges as a devolved county just like any other county."
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