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    "id": 1441860,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyeri Town, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Duncan Mathenge",
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    "content": " I have spoken to my constituents in the markets in Nyeri Town, Gatitu Location, Ruring’u Location and I have listened to their proposals and objections to the Finance Bill as originally tabled in this House. Their concerns have been adequately addressed in the Report that has been tabled by the Finance Committee in this House. As a result, all the Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers in the 43 primary schools in the constituency who have been requesting me for permanent and pensionable employment, today, I can proudly confirm to them that through the funds that will be raised using this Finance Bill, their employment is guaranteed. I can also confirm to the doctors who went on strike over the money for interns and their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that was not implemented, that the promise that they were given will be funded through this Finance Bill. I can confirm to the coffee farmers of Nyeri and Mt. Kenya region that the debt write- offs that has been promised by the Government, the funds will be raised by this Bill. The Executive brought their proposal to this House and this House has the mandate to look at their proposals and either agree, reject or amend them. It is incumbent among us tomorrow, if you so direct Hon. Speaker, that we exercise our mandate as a House and contribute towards the advancement of this country in terms of the budget that we passed in this House. We started by passing the Budget Policy Statement that indicated that we would have increased expenditure this financial year. Where did we expect the money to come from if, when the proposals are brought to us, all we are doing is rejecting them in totality? For the many young men who sent messages to my phone, I engaged and asked them to specify the particular sections of the Bill that they wanted me to say no to. Many of them just kept saying: ‘Reject the Finance Bill in totality’, meaning that they had not interacted with the document. But they had been fed lies to believe that this Bill had nothing good for this country. On the contrary, none of these Members has rejected the increase in the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) allocation in the constituencies."
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