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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the oversight role is crucial, particularly in this Tenth Parliament which has a very powerful committee system. This oversight role is not that of a police officer or a traffic officer to sit there and harass motorists just because he or she looks hungry and ugly. An oversight role looks across the board. We are saying this with a heavy heart because in our oversight role, we are telling you now that the agricultural sector under this budget for which we are celebrating--- This sector in what they call agriculture and rural development was allocated only 3.49 per cent. Let me make it easier for you to remember. Out of the many billions we talked about, the Ministry of Agriculture got 3.5 per cent. In terms of the Ministry of Agriculture, which is headed by Mr. William Samoei Ruto, the one who has said that he is not the one who took the land, was allocated 1.99 per cent. To please you, just let me make it 2 per cent. Two per cent is supposed to take 80 per cent of our labour force, generate our foreign exchange up to a level of 65 per cent. People in Treasury work on figures but this time round, they got zero. They do not know their mathematics right. If they do get the mathematics right, they also do not get the rules and statutes right. This is because the Maputo Protocol which has been touted and people have spoken about--- Many hon. Members would be amused to learn that those who were signatories to the Maputo Protocol were only Heads of States. It was not Mr. John Mututho and other lesser mortals. It was the Heads of States. This is what they said:-"
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