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"speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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"content": "I agree with the Chairperson that certain expenditure under Recurrent are capital in nature. Education is one of them. I said before that we should consider relooking at education as a capital expenditure. There is no investment which is as important as education. I want the Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to be looking at the luxury lines, all the time when we are making the Budget. They are four: domestic travels, foreign travels, hospitality, fuel and maintenance. This is where we have a lot of wastage. I want to appeal to this House and the country at large that we need to consider what is happening in the counties. There is overemployment and you can find a new governor coming in place and hiring drivers yet the drivers from the previous regime are earning a salary and do not have vehicles to drive. The role of a driver is to drive a vehicle. So, if a driver earns a salary without being assigned a vehicle, honestly, this is serious wastage. I do not know what kind of fear they have against drivers of the previous regime. I wonder whether these drivers want to kill them and, in the process, also kill themselves. As I conclude, we need to employ prudent, efficient and effective utilisation or application of resources to realise economies in use. I am disturbed by the rise of corruption cases yet, in the last election, when we were campaigning, both sides were in agreement on one thing. That, this country is at a difficult period in history in terms of debt repayment and payment of Government services. We agreed to do something on wastages and probably we disagreed on how to actualise the same. The fight against corruption must be prioritised. We are seeing financing of luxuries and it is bringing this country down. We are financing luxuries of bloated governments. There is no need to enlarge the size of this Government any further. We have too much Government in place both at the national and the county levels. Kenyans are overrepresented and feel overburdened by Government. A very heavy Government is weighing on our people and sinking this economy. We need to reduce the size of Government not by retrenching people but by not creating additional offices. They are unnecessary wastage of resources. Lastly, I want to be very clear because we have been seeing the Cabinet Secretary for Trade who comes from Hon. Kagombe’s area trotting everywhere. Honestly, I do not think he represents this country, if what he says locally causes a lot…"
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