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    "content": "This year’s Budget was not only to spur economic growth, but was based on stimulation. It was based on economic stimulus. Failure to implement the economic stimulus package in time is impacting adversely on the economy of this country. The assumption was that we were going to implement the economic stimulus package to encourage expenditure and realize economic growth. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, unfortunately, as we speak, the economic stimulus package has not been implemented. It is being done in a haphazard way. The tendering is going on even before we identify the locations or the sites where the various projects need to be undertaken. If you are tendering for the construction of a market; which market is it and which area does it fall under? There are certain provisions in the economic stimulus package like the money for buying IT buses. This is an allocation that I would like the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance to consider re-allocating because how do you buy TATA buses for Gwassi Constituency? I believe that Gwassi is an average constituency. There are constituencies with better infrastructure than Gwassi Constituency. So, you cannot drive the buses with computers in Gwassi Constituency even when it does not rain. If one insists on buying those buses then he or she is trying to make money at Treasury. This is a project that does not make sense to me. We should transfer that money to the constituencies for buying computers. In any case, the Rural Electrification Programme has been rolled out and it is on-going. So, most schools will be connected with electricity. So, instead of putting those buses on the road which will breakdown, and we even do not know how we will fuel them, the money should be used to buy computers so that we do not lose the objective of enhancing Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in this country."
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