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    "content": "other Committees as we looked at the Budget is that, there is a disproportionate relationship between Recurrent Expenditure and Development Expenditure. The amount of money that goes into Recurrent Expenditure is unacceptable for a country that wants to develop. It is much too high. I think in programmatic terms, there are levels beyond which once you go, you know that you are not using your money well. Once you begin to spend anything beyond 40 per cent of your money in Recurrent Expenditure, whether it is salaries of Civil Servants or Ministers and then the rest goes to development, then you know that that budget is lopsided. We are in a situation where much of our money goes into Recurrent Expenditure and not enough is going to Development Expenditure. That, I think is very sad. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I take a case in point which was in the Minister’s Budget Speech. He told us that Ministers will drive smaller cars. I am not sure that that policy has been implemented. It was very juicy when it came out on the Floor of the House. I am, however, not sure about the will to implement it. Today we have a very large Government. We have a Cabinet that is very big and we all say it is big because of the crisis that we had. I am not sure, having been in this House for a year and a half that the Government is big so as to bring about peace within the country. I think a lot of it was self driven and when we tried to say that earlier on, we were told: “You did not end up in the Cabinet so it is sour grapes”. It is not sour grapes! We have a Cabinet that is too big. When you get a new district, as I have in Mbeere South District, we are waiting to get officers of Government as many as there are Ministries. The level of overlap and abuse of resources is extremely high. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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