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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sambu",
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        "legal_name": "Alfred B. Wekesa Sambu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the chance to speak on the Motion on the Vote of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance. I would like to state at the outset that I stand here to support the Motion. In supporting the Motion, I would like to particularly thank the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance for the Budget he presented before this House, which, in my view, has revolutionised our thinking and created a lot of talk amongst our people. If we utilize it properly, it is a Budget that will support this country’s development, particularly in the rural areas. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Budget was correctly called “an economic stimulus”. There are a number of things I would like to comment on this Budget. First, we now have a lot of funds being channelled through various areas. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance talked of funds that are to be channelled through the line Ministries, funds that are to be channelled through the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) framework, and so on. I hope that we will shortly get the rules and regulations that will be used, so that these funds can be released quickly to the various areas for their timely utilization. We can have a very good Budget but, because of lack of rules, the money will be withheld as time goes by, and by the end of the year, we will not have utilised the funds. So, it will be nice that the rules are in place, so that the funds can be released quickly to the various areas and be utilised. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to thank the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance for thinking seriously about this serious problem in Webuye – the Panpaper Factory. If we are talking of employment for our youth and growth of the economy of this country through the various factories and companies that depend on Panpaper Factory such as milk processing factories, cement factories, and paper converters, Panpaper Factory must be revived very quickly. I am grateful that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance has allocated Kshs500 million to start off the revival of the factory. I have also had a chance to speak with him. We agreed that Kshs500 million is not enough, and that we need Kshs2.6 billion. I have been given the assurance that this money will be available as time passes by. I would like him to actually confirm to this House, as he replies to this debate, that there will be further amounts of money that will be allocated to the tune of Kshs2.6 billion, so that Panpaper Factory will become functional very quickly, because the factory is not only an asset to this country but it is a major factory in Western Province, and particularly in Webuye."
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