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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "Our Secretariat sat for hours on end reviewing the over 1,500 memoranda that were sent to us by email, taking care to respond individually to each of those emails with comments and noting those comments in our Report. The Report that we tabled yesterday has about more than 3,000 pages of annexes. This comes at a time when we just passed the Budget Estimates and the Appropriations Bill. Hon. Speaker, it is very interesting to note that while conducting public participation on the Budget Estimates, the Budget and Appropriations Committee dealt with members of the public with smiling faces. People were saying: “We want that road completed and that dam constructed. We want water connected to our homesteads and electricity connected to our homestead.” However, the experience was not the same when we sought views from the same members of the public on how to fund the budget they really wanted implemented. The public participation exercise came at a time when this Bill had already faced a lot of falsehoods and “political assassination.” I have listened to members of the public and Members of Parliament debating on some matters that are contained in the Bill. One of them that I really found interesting and unfortunate is the miscommunication, for example, on compensation of insurance services. I heard members of the public say that if, for example, I lose my leg and I get compensated, then I am going to pay 16 per cent of that compensation. I heard members of the public, and even some Members of the National Assembly, say that if The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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