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"content": "could really listen, this is one word that has really been over-used. I do not want the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance to think outside the box anymore. I want them to think of a new terminology, something called âmetamorphosisâ. In science, the term means that change in that ugly looking caterpillar to something called a butterfly and it flies away. Our Budget process resembles that caterpillar. We have had several challenges and we need now to come and metarmophosize our own thinking. We should think Kenyan. I have in mind the 1970s. This Ministry was allocating 13 per cent budget on agriculture. That way, we were able to have Kenya Meat Commission (KMC), Kenya Planters Co-operative Union (KPCU ) et cetera. Gradually, we have come very low and this year, if I am not mistaken, the Ministry of Agriculture under Mr. Samoei, was allocated 1.56 per cent. This 1.56 per cent is expected to support 80 per cent of our labour force. That percentage cannot be expected to feed all Kenyans. It simply cannot work! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance should re-engineer the whole budgetary process so that you are not following the norms or the ceilings which were developed some time back. After all, when those ceilings were developed, we did not have 40 Ministries. There are some good and bad things about this budget. For example, if you look at the money being spent on the rehabilitation of helicopters being used by the police, you realize that according to the figures we have seen, repairing those archaic helicopters owned by the Kenya Police, cost as much as the entire budget for the Ministry of Lands. That does not add up. Land is one of the five factors of production. If we were to survive and avoid clashes, because most of them have to do with land, then we have to look at the whole sector."
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