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    "id": 1431446,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "Government, failed. We failed the citizens. We approved for them to build. They did not just wake up and build. I am tired of a Kenya where people buy land, get title deeds, take loans from banks, then one fine morning we wake up and say that that is an illegality. It is an illegality that we have caused. How much money are we putting into strengthening the weak structures of this country? Yesterday, I saw Felix Kosgey on television saying that the Government will be zero-tolerant to corruption. There is no way the Government can have zero tolerance to corruption if you have not given money to entities that fight corruption. Have we given them enough money to fight corruption? Because nothing is cast on stone, I want to see in the Supplementary Budget a provision for more money and food for the citizens that we have aggrieved. I am tired of people looking at Nairobi and thinking it is a rich county. It is not a rich county because of failures of devolution through corruption. We, therefore, need to make sure that we have an equalisation fund for Nairobi. As long as all those counties getting money fail, everybody ends up coming for greener pastures in Nairobi. Nairobi is over congested. I fully support and hope that the Budget and Appropriations Committee can consider the one man-one vote-one shilling policy. We need to make sure that we appropriate budgets that way. This will improve our democracy. If we say one-man-one-vote-one shilling, people will take voting seriously. They will ensure that they register as voters. Right now, there is voter apathy. Eight million voters did not vote. Why? Because they have no confidence in the Government. But when we take resources to the places where they are needed…How can you give Kasarani Constituency, which has over 300,000 people, the same resources you give a constituency with 11,000 people? We are failing. Hon. Temporary Speaker, as we budget, let us do it according to our pockets and look for ways to raise money. As we look for ways to raise money, let us also remember that we owe a lot of people. I want to know whether we have ensured that we will pay some of the pending bills in the current Supplementary Budget. We have made our citizens poor because we are not paying pending bills. When I was looking at the South African elections, I saw how the Democratic Alliance Party got very many votes. There will come a time when the Democratic Alliance Party will rule South Africa. There will come a time when an independent candidate will be the President of this country. At the end of the day, people are getting poorer and poorer no matter what we do. How are we going to change that? It starts with budgeting, and we have to have a human touch. The Government might be a building, but the building is run by humans. As leaders, if we go out and ask for votes, let us start touching and saving lives. We should start empowering and enriching our citizens. If it is about tightening the belt, let Parliament start tightening its belt. Every entity needs to tighten its belt so that the citizens of this country can be enriched and empowered. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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