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    "id": 1418058,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you. Hon. Danson Mwashako is a seasoned Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. He can tell you that we used to allocate public participation funds for 11 counties per year. By the end of four years, we covered all the 47 counties. There is a budget that is available for that exercise. Ordinarily, we had started with Ksh1.2 billion. In 2019, when I was shipped out of the Budget and Appropriations Committee by the previous regime, we were approaching about Ksh1.82 billion. I know Ksh2 billion is still available for public participation, including this year. However, it is also important that the Budget and Appropriations Committee make it an open and transparent system wherein their report informs the House of the particular counties where they are conducting public participation in a particular year. This will involve and be owned by the Members of Parliament who represent their constituencies. For instance, when the Committee is going to Siaya for public participation, the Leader of the Minority Party should be aware so that he can mobilise the public to attend and give you the projects that are of priority to them. There is always the temptation for people to sit and appropriate resources based on what they think are the peoples’ priorities. When the Budget and Appropriations Committee goes for public participation in the identified counties, the essence is to get issues of pertinent concern to the residents that were not factored in the budget and have them factored in. Unfortunately, we have begun losing the essence of public participation, and we need to get back on the rails. As I said, I will pick up the issue raised by the Leader of the Minority Party with the National Treasury."
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