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    "id": 1382906,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
        "slug": "ledama-olekina"
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    "content": "The challenge we have is that we know where people are breaking the law. We know where the county governments are diverting the money, but we do not have the guts to say enough is enough. I beseech you because of time that as we support this, can we at least increase the money to the proposal of the committee to around Kshs415 billion? If we increase it by 1.5 per cent, what exactly are you doing? We are stagnating the economic growth. The first thing that will help us to make some progress is if we are allowed to move a resolution of this House that all pending bills must be paid before the end of the financial year. You know when you have pending bills and that is what I am going to focus on, you have a stalled economy. Look at what is happening across the country. There are a lot of mushrooming white elephant projects. It is about time that we became diligent. The National Treasury has recommended nine value chains. Why leave out sugarcane sector? I beseech the Committee on Finance and Budget to bring an amendment so that we add sugarcane as the tenth value so that we grow with everybody in this economy. This challenge we have or even reducing it to four minutes is a crisis. Lastly, because I know my time will end, the time for MES has lapsed. Why do we not bring an amendment so that we can increase or introduce another Kshs5.86 billion to bring an alternative to the MES? So, the only way we are going to grow this economy is if we include all sectors. The work that has been done by this committee is important. However, as my colleague has said before, I hope that by the time when we will be voting for the Division of the Revenue Bill, people will not run away from their recommendations"
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