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    "id": 1252833,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rarieda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Otiende Amollo",
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    "content": "I do not understand how a Government that says that already there is a problem, insists on increasing the overall Budget from Ksh3.3 trillion which was in the previous year to Ksh3.67 trillion if you admit there is no money. What is the principle? If you have no money, you cut your coat according to size. You do not say you must increase it and therefore, overtax. Secondly, how does a Government that says we are short of money explain why you must create offices that you do not need? You do not need the Office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary. You do not need all the 24 Cabinet Offices. The Constitution allows you a minimum of 14. You do not need over 51 Principal Secretaries. You do not need over 50 Chief Administrative Secretaries (CASs). All these are taking public money. It is unfortunate that a Member of Parliament should seek to mislead the public by saying that Members of Parliament get money for houses which is not true. It is a loan that we take and repay at 3 per cent. If that is your position, then take away that free house because we do not have it. Do not tax Kenyans on it. Hon. Speaker, corruption, corruption, corruption. In all these words, you will never hear the word anti-corruption from the words of those who speak for the Government side. In fact, you only see the demonstration of those who are facing corruption charges being withdrawn. It is on record from the previous President that we lose Ksh2 billion every day to corruption. If we could reduce that to Ksh1 billion, we would fix the gap that they are talking about in the Government. Then there is rationalisation. Hon. Speaker, you are aware, and this House has debated in the previous Parliament, and there was a report that suggested that we do not need the over 530 ministries and departments of Government or parastatals that we have. Most of them are duplicative. It was suggested that we should reduce them to barely 50. Instead of reducing them, we have a situation where we are sustaining even those which were moribund, those which were not working. We are giving opportunities to others to earn a living. Hon. Speaker, my two minutes were taken, can I get my two minutes back, please?"
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