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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "those places. I am optimistic that with this Budget that my friend, Ndindi Nyoro, is midwifing including our dear brother, Hon. Kuria, in the Finance Bill, this 13th Parliament, in my view, will be counted as one that helped this country to come to birth. As a country and a Parliament, I want us to look forward to better days. Fuel in the pumps will be high and many other things will be difficult but we need to look at the bigger picture – the long-term results. Why are we doing this? It is because the long-term would be better than the short-term. The short-term is that it would be painful but the long-term would be termed gainful, and this country needs to look into that. We are making reductions and additions in the Appropriations Bill that we are dealing with. However, as we do this from the podium of this Parliament, I want to tell all the Government officials who have been given the responsibility to spend Government money wisely for the benefit of the country to do so prudently. I want to ask Cabinet Secretaries and Principal Secretaries whose docket this money will be put in, not to look at this money as theirs, their families’, their mothers,’ but rather for the people of Kenya. The money must be spent prudently and properly for the growth and development of this country. As a House, we have the oversight responsibility. I would like the Committee chaired by Hon. John Mbadi to call and put them to task. We want greater accountability from Cabinet Secretaries and Principal Secretaries so that at the end of it, Kenya is proud because we have a team that can move this country forward. He is taking bold and sometimes dangerous steps. The end game is that this country must rise and come back in a fashion that everybody will be happy."
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